TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Diskitis A1 - Lindsay, Eduardo A. A1 - Copley, Lawson A. B. A2 - Shah, Samir S. A2 - Kemper, Alex R. A2 - Ratner, Adam J. PY - 2019 T2 - Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2e AB - The term diskitis (or discitis) refers to an infection of the intervertebral disk. Diskitis typically occurs in children aged 1–5 years, but older children and adolescents are occasionally affected.1,2 The infection spreads to adjacent vertebral endplates, resulting in vertebral osteomyelitis in association with the diskitis (spondylodiskitis).1,2 As a result of a frequent delay in presentation or diagnosis, most children present with spondylodiskitis rather than isolated diskitis. In comparison to other forms of acute hematogenous osteomyelitis in children, spondylodiskitis is uncommon, with one series reporting only six cases in a 3-year period among 212 children with osteomyelitis involving the musculoskeletal system. Given an estimated incidence of childhood osteomyelitis ranging from 1 to 5 per 10,000 children, it would be reasonable to attribute an incidence of spondylodiskitis to be less than 1 in 100,000 children.23 Boys are more frequently affected than girls (male : female ratio 1.7 : 1).1–5 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157322988 ER -