Table 7.

Sites of Infection Determined by Clinical Findings and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in 346 Patients who Had Spinal/Paraspinal Involvement With or Without Meningitis/Stroke^a

Site of Infection	No. (%)b
Epidural abscess/phlegmon	173 (50)
Only	61 (35)
With arachnoiditis	53 (31)
With osteomyelitis/sacroiliac disease	35 (20)
With other spinal/paraspinal disease	50 (29)
Arachnoiditis	117 (34)
Only	51 (44)
With epidural abscess/phlegmon	53 (45)
With osteomyelitis/sacroiliac disease	10 (8)
With other spinal/paraspinal disease	25 (21)
Other spinal/paraspinal disease	117 (34)
Only	47 (40)
With arachnoiditis	25 (21)
With epidural abscess/phlegmon	50 (43)
With osteomyelitis/sacroiliac disease	17 (14)
Osteomyelitis/sacroiliac disease	105 (16)
Only	51 (49)
With arachnoiditis	12 (11)
With epidural abscess/phlegmon	41 (39)
With other spinal/paraspinal disease	23 (22)

^aAs defined in Table 3.

^bPatients had more than 1 site of infection.