Massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report

In spite of being a common diagnosis in the patients of Asian origin, atypical presentations of tuberculosis may pose diagnostic challenges. We report a huge prevertebral abscess in a 30-year-old female, mimicking a leaking aortic aneurysm. The patient was managed successfully by emergency decompres...

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Autores principales: Singh, Pankaj K, Azam, Amir, Singh, Vinay K, Tomar, Juhi, Mishra, Alka, Singh, Kuldeep K, Gupta, Sanjeev
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18854051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-236
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author Singh, Pankaj K
Azam, Amir
Singh, Vinay K
Tomar, Juhi
Mishra, Alka
Singh, Kuldeep K
Gupta, Sanjeev
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Azam, Amir
Singh, Vinay K
Tomar, Juhi
Mishra, Alka
Singh, Kuldeep K
Gupta, Sanjeev
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description In spite of being a common diagnosis in the patients of Asian origin, atypical presentations of tuberculosis may pose diagnostic challenges. We report a huge prevertebral abscess in a 30-year-old female, mimicking a leaking aortic aneurysm. The patient was managed successfully by emergency decompression and stabilization. The issues related to poor patient compliance to chemotherapy and management of atypical presentations of spinal tuberculosis are discussed here.
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spelling pubmed-25726052008-10-25 Massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report Singh, Pankaj K Azam, Amir Singh, Vinay K Tomar, Juhi Mishra, Alka Singh, Kuldeep K Gupta, Sanjeev Cases J Case Report In spite of being a common diagnosis in the patients of Asian origin, atypical presentations of tuberculosis may pose diagnostic challenges. We report a huge prevertebral abscess in a 30-year-old female, mimicking a leaking aortic aneurysm. The patient was managed successfully by emergency decompression and stabilization. The issues related to poor patient compliance to chemotherapy and management of atypical presentations of spinal tuberculosis are discussed here. BioMed Central 2008-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2572605/ /pubmed/18854051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-236 Text en Copyright © 2008 Singh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Singh, Pankaj K
Azam, Amir
Singh, Vinay K
Tomar, Juhi
Mishra, Alka
Singh, Kuldeep K
Gupta, Sanjeev
Massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report
title Massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report
title_full Massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report
title_fullStr Massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report
title_short Massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report
title_sort massive retroperitoneal tubercular abscess mimicking a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18854051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-236
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