| recent trends in spinal infections: retrospective analysis of patients treated during the past 50 years. | we retrospectively reviewed the medical charts of 210 consecutive patients treated for spinal infection in tottori university hospital in japan between 1956 and 2005. until 1995, spinal infection was under control in this series; however, during the last decade, it has been on the rise. male predominance had been gradually progressing, and 69% of the patients were male during the last decade. patients with spinal infection were aging, and the ratio of immunocompromised hosts dramatically increas ... | 2010 | 19277654 |