A spinal infection, such as osteomyelitis or an abscess.

The Los Angeles doctors diagnosed a dangerous spinal infection that had also damaged Mr. Thomas's heart.

Wilson spent the winter playing in Australia, but was forced to return home with a serious spinal infection caused by bacteria on a needle during an injection.

Wallace died on September 13, 1998 in Montgomery, Alabama from an infectious spinal infection, aged 79.

Repeated lumbar punctures are regarded as unpleasant by patients, and they present a danger of introducing spinal infections if done too often.

The result was a spinal infection that nearly paralyzed Smith, hospitalizing him for six months.

Ms. Massi had a spinal infection when she was a child and has lived most of her life in a wheelchair.

A spinal infection, inflammation, hemorrhage, or fracture.

With the onset of World War II, he joined the Navy but a spinal infection prevented him from seeing action.

He had been hospitalized for two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia, and an intestinal infection.