Table 1.

Patients’ demographic data and clinical outcomes (M male, F female, DM diabetes mellitus, HTN hypertension, TB tuberculosis, CAD coronary artery disease, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ESRD end-stage renal disease, ARF acute renal failure, AIDS acquired immunodeficient syndrome, OSSA oxacillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, ORSA oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)

Case no.	Age (years)	Gender	Level	Major medical disease	Pain relief	Culture	Pathology by PEDD	Surgery	Pathology by surgery
1	68	M	L5–S1	DM and HTN	None	Negative	Inflammation	1 week later	Inflammation
2	79	F	L4–5	DM and HTN	Immediate	TB	Positive	None
3	44	F	L4–5		Immediate	Prevotella	Positive	None
4	82	M	L4–5	Pulmonary TB	Immediate	Negative	Inflammation	8 months later	TB
5	79	M	L2–3	CAD and COPD	None	Candida	Positive	2 weeks later
6	56	M	L5–S1		Immediate	OSSA	Positive	1 month later
7	79	M	L2–3	CAD	Immediate	Streptococcus	Positive	None
8	60	F	L2–3		Immediate	TB	Positive	None
9	54	M	L4–5		Immediate	ORSA	Positive	None
10	52	F	L5–S1	ESRD	Immediate	ORSA	Positive	None
11	75	M	L3–4	Liver cirrhosis	Immediate	OSSA	Positive	None
12	55	M	L4–5	ARF	Immediate	Enterococcus faecalis	Positive	None
13	27	M	L4–5	AIDS	Immediate	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Positive	None
14	88	F	L2–3	DM and HTN	Immediate	OSSA	Positive	None
15	65	F	L4–5	DM and hepatitis	Immediate	ORSA	Positive	None