Erschienen in:
01.09.2014 | Scientific Letter
Tuberculosis Spine Presenting as Multiple Skip Lesions and Non-Contiguous Paraspinal Abscesses: An Atypical Presentation
verfasst von:
Dhrubajyoti Sharma, Aravind Swaminathan, Deepti Suri, Akshay Kumar Saxena, Ajay Kumar, Raje Nijhawan, Surjit Singh
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 9/2014
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Excerpt
To the Editor: Spine tuberculosis accounts for nearly 50 % cases of osteoarticular tuberculosis [
1]. Spinal tuberculosis manifesting with extradural extraosseous involvement presenting as paraspinal abscesses and spinal skip lesions is rare [
2‐
5]. We report a child with paraspinal abscesses in two locations along with noncontiguous involvement of multiple vertebrae. …