Interesting Clinical Case:
82-year-old patient with a history of bone tuberculosis and recurrent Staphylococcus aureus infection in the right hip with several reoperations for debridement. Several years of chronic pain in the spine that conditions functional impotence for my ambulation, which is why she attended. An X-ray is performed which shows: severe left convex lumbar scoliosis. Marked degenerative changes, with anterior and posterior marginal osteophytes, associated with diffuse bulging of the discs, more accentuated in L3-L4, L4-L5 and L5 S1. In L5-S1, a left foraminal hernia is also identified. Severe hypertrophy of the facet joints, which, together with the findings previously described, conditions a segmental stenosis of the canal at L4-L5. Significant Meyerding grade 3 lumbar listhesis in conjunction with L5-S1 spondylolysis. Medullary cone without apparent alterations.
