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Radiology case 338-231 Clinical presentation: 27 year old man, originally from India, with increasing back pain and a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
There is loss of disc space between the 3rd and 4th lumbar vertebrae and some blurring of the lower end-plate of L3. The density of the body is irregular in...

Radiology case 311-231 Clinical presentation: 30 year old Indian man with neck pain and stiffness.
There is a soft tissue swelling, which displaces the retropharyngeal air-tissue boundary forwards. The centre of radius of the bulge lies roughly at the level of the axis vertebra, where an anterior defect in the vertebra, below...

Oguz Karaeminogullari, Ufuk Aydinli, Remzi Ozerdemoglu, Cagatay Ozturk: Tuberculosis Of The Lumbar Spine: Outcomes After Combined Treatment With Short-Course Two-Drug Therapy And Surgery. The Internet Journal of Orthopedic Surgery. 2005. Volume 2 Number 2.
The purpose was to evaluate complications and treatment results in patients with tuberculosis of the lumbar spine....

Tuberculosis of the Spine deserves a place on the radar screen. McLain & Isada Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 2004 Vol 71 #7
Spinal involvement may be the first manifestation of tuberculosis and the problem that drives the patient to seek medical care. Spinal tuberculosis (often called Pott's disease) is by...

Shanley Amer J Roent 164 (3): 659. (1995)
Spinal tuberculosis, the most common form of skeletal involvement, is increasing in prevalence because of the resur- gence of tuberculosis during the past decade in patients with AIDS, the spread of tuberculosis among the homeless, and the expanding immigrant population. Spinal infection is...

Spinal Cord (2002) 40, 604-608 B Dass, T A Puet and C Watanakunakorn
Conclusions: Although uncommon, spinal TB still occurs in patients from developed countries, such as the US and Europe. Back pain is an important symptom. Vertebral collapse from TB may be misinterpreted as 'compression fractures' especially in elderly...

4000 cases of extrapulmonary involvment each year in the US;
- most common extra pulmonary location of TB is the spine;
- spine is the extrapulmonary site in over 50% of the cases of bone and joint involvement;
- about 2/3...

H. Hakan Poyrazoglu, Funda Tor, M. Kemal Av?ar, ?hsan Bayraktar, Semra Payda?, Tümer Ulus: Vertebral Tuberculosis Mimicking Malign Vertebral And Spinal Cord Tumors. The Internet Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2007. Volume 9 Number 1.
Abstract: An 68 year old patient who had a lung mass which was invaded into the...