Pott's Spine with Bilateral Psoas Abscesses

A high degree of suspicion and appropriate imaging studies are required for the early diagnosis of Pott's spine. We describe a 4-year-old boy with Pott's disease of the lumbar spine with bilateral psoas abscesses. The child responded to conservative treatment with antituberculous treatment...

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Autores principales: Masavkar, Sanjeevani, Shanbag, Preeti, Inamdar, Prithi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23259114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/208946
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author Masavkar, Sanjeevani
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description A high degree of suspicion and appropriate imaging studies are required for the early diagnosis of Pott's spine. We describe a 4-year-old boy with Pott's disease of the lumbar spine with bilateral psoas abscesses. The child responded to conservative treatment with antituberculous treatment and ultrasonographically guided percutaneous drainage of the abscesses.
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spelling pubmed-35042242012-12-20 Pott's Spine with Bilateral Psoas Abscesses Masavkar, Sanjeevani Shanbag, Preeti Inamdar, Prithi Case Rep Orthop Case Report A high degree of suspicion and appropriate imaging studies are required for the early diagnosis of Pott's spine. We describe a 4-year-old boy with Pott's disease of the lumbar spine with bilateral psoas abscesses. The child responded to conservative treatment with antituberculous treatment and ultrasonographically guided percutaneous drainage of the abscesses. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3504224/ /pubmed/23259114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/208946 Text en Copyright © 2012 Sanjeevani Masavkar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pott's Spine with Bilateral Psoas Abscesses
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title_short Pott's Spine with Bilateral Psoas Abscesses
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504224/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/208946
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