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Multicentric tuberculosis at two rare sites in an immunocompetent adult

The case of a 20-year-old female who presented with refractory coccydynia and sternal pain is described. She was immunocompetent, and had no systemic features. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the sternal and coccygeal regions based on magnetic resonance imaging and histopathology of biopsy sp...

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Autores principales: Singh, Saurabh, Nagaraj, Chethan, Khare, Ghanshyam N., Kumaraswamy, Vinay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3225630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22006175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10195-011-0157-8
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author Singh, Saurabh
Nagaraj, Chethan
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Kumaraswamy, Vinay
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description The case of a 20-year-old female who presented with refractory coccydynia and sternal pain is described. She was immunocompetent, and had no systemic features. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the sternal and coccygeal regions based on magnetic resonance imaging and histopathology of biopsy specimens. Conservative management with oral multidrug antituberculous therapy completely cured the patient, and she had not suffered any recurrence after three years of follow-up. This case highlights the possibility of the multicentric presentation of tuberculosis at two rare sites in the same immunocompetent patient, even though the differential diagnosis was coccydynia.
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spelling pubmed-32256302011-12-27 Multicentric tuberculosis at two rare sites in an immunocompetent adult Singh, Saurabh Nagaraj, Chethan Khare, Ghanshyam N. Kumaraswamy, Vinay J Orthop Traumatol Case Report The case of a 20-year-old female who presented with refractory coccydynia and sternal pain is described. She was immunocompetent, and had no systemic features. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the sternal and coccygeal regions based on magnetic resonance imaging and histopathology of biopsy specimens. Conservative management with oral multidrug antituberculous therapy completely cured the patient, and she had not suffered any recurrence after three years of follow-up. This case highlights the possibility of the multicentric presentation of tuberculosis at two rare sites in the same immunocompetent patient, even though the differential diagnosis was coccydynia. Springer International Publishing 2011-10-18 2011-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3225630/ /pubmed/22006175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10195-011-0157-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Singh, Saurabh
Nagaraj, Chethan
Khare, Ghanshyam N.
Kumaraswamy, Vinay
Multicentric tuberculosis at two rare sites in an immunocompetent adult
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title_full Multicentric tuberculosis at two rare sites in an immunocompetent adult
title_fullStr Multicentric tuberculosis at two rare sites in an immunocompetent adult
title_full_unstemmed Multicentric tuberculosis at two rare sites in an immunocompetent adult
title_short Multicentric tuberculosis at two rare sites in an immunocompetent adult
title_sort multicentric tuberculosis at two rare sites in an immunocompetent adult
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3225630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22006175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10195-011-0157-8
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