Table 4.
Abscess location
| Study | Type of study | No. of patients | Cervical | Cervicothoracic | Thoracic | Thoracolumbar | Lumbar | Lumbarsacral | Sacral |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amadoru et al. [11] 2017 | Single institutional retrospective review (>65 yr) | 34 | 6 | 12 | 76 | 6 | |||
| Arko et al. [28] (2014) | PubMed review | 646 | 24 | 30.8 | - | 48.1 | |||
| Artenstein et al. [7] (2016) | 10-year, retrospective, tertiary-care, regional, academic medical center | 162 | 25.9 | 34.0 | 56.2 | 29.0 | |||
| Single institutional retrospective review (<65 yr) | 19 | 11 | 0 | 58 | 5 | ||||
| Connor et al. [16] (2013) | Single institutional retrospective review (11 yr) | 77 | 23.4 | 50.6 | 26.0 | ||||
| Karikari et al. [42] (2009) | Single institutional retrospective review (>10 yr) | 104 | 17.0 | 31.8 | 51.1 | ||||
| Lener et al. [26] (2018) | Review | 24 | - | 31 | - | 48 | - | ||
| Patel et al. [10] (2014) | Single institutional retrospective review (6 yr) | 128 | 35.9 | 39.1 | 54.7 | 23.4 | |||
| Reihsaus et al. [3] (2000) | PubMed review | 725 | 19 | 7 | 35 | 7 | 18 | 12 | 0.4 |
| Shah et al. [44] (2018) | Single institutional retrospective review (23 yr) | 1,053 | 13 | 5.5 | 21 | 6.7 | 29 | 19 | 0.19 |
| Review (only medically treated) | 8.5 | 3.3 | 19 | 6.8 | 37 | 22 | 0.5 | ||
| Siddiq et al. [29] (2004) | Institutional retrospective | 57 | 28 | - | 18 | - | 54 | - | |
| Literature review only Streptococcus pneumoniae | 21 | 14.3 | 9.5 | 14.3 | - | 28.6 | 4.8 | - | |
| Soehle et el. [21] (2002) | Single institutional retrospective review | 25 | 32 | 20 | 48 | ||||
| Suppiah et al. [66] (2016) | PubMed review (25 yr) | 1,843 (based on 916 data points) | 22.5 | - | 33.2 | - | 48.1 | - | - |
| Vakili et al. [8] (2017) | Single institutional retrospective review (10 yr) | 101 | 11.9 | 14.9 | 42.6 | ||||
| Wang et al. [31] (2012) | Institutional prospective non-IVDA | 44 | 18 | 47 | 34 | ||||
| Institutional prospective IVDA | 44 | 78 | - | 9 | - | 13 | - | - | |
| Wheeler et al. [67] (1992) | Case report | 37 | 14–26 | - | 31–63 | - | 21–44 | - | |
| Zimmerer et al. [41] (2011) | Single institutional prospective (4 yr) | 36 | 9.6 | 17.3 | 53.4 | 9.6 | |||
| Ziu et al. [9] (2014) | Single institutional retrospective review (IVDA) | 34 | 8.8 | 23.5 | 57.8 |
Values are presented as %, unless otherwise stated. Some cells are split to include specific population in cited study.
IVDA, intravenous drug abuse.