A fatal case of spinal tuberculosis mistaken for metastatic lung cancer: recalling ancient Pott's disease

BACKGROUND: Tuberculous spondylitis (Pott's disease) is an ancient human disease. Because it is rare in high-income, tuberculosis (TB) low incidence countries, misdiagnoses occur as sufficient clinical experience is lacking. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a fatal case of a patient with spinal T...

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Autores principales: Ringshausen, Felix C, Tannapfel, Andrea, Nicolas, Volkmar, Weber, Andreas, Duchna, Hans-Werner, Schultze-Werninghaus, Gerhard, Rohde, Gernot
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19930560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-8-32

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