Chest Pain? An Unusual Presentation of Vertebral Osteomyelitis

We present a case of vertebral osteomyelitis presenting as chest pain. The patient initially underwent a CT chest angiogram to rule out a pulmonary embolism, which incidentally showed a soft tissue vertebral mass at T3-T4 disk space. Subsequent thoracic vertebral MRI was consistent with osteomyeliti...

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Autores principales: Landa, Cristian, Giddings, Stanley, Reddy, Pramod
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23476664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/416498
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description We present a case of vertebral osteomyelitis presenting as chest pain. The patient initially underwent a CT chest angiogram to rule out a pulmonary embolism, which incidentally showed a soft tissue vertebral mass at T3-T4 disk space. Subsequent thoracic vertebral MRI was consistent with osteomyelitis with cord compression. Tissue culture from a CT-guided biopsy grew MRSA. The patient was successfully treated with Vancomycin. This is a rare presentation of vertebral osteomyelitis which poses an interesting diagnostic challenge.
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spelling pubmed-35820572013-03-09 Chest Pain? An Unusual Presentation of Vertebral Osteomyelitis Landa, Cristian Giddings, Stanley Reddy, Pramod Case Rep Med Case Report We present a case of vertebral osteomyelitis presenting as chest pain. The patient initially underwent a CT chest angiogram to rule out a pulmonary embolism, which incidentally showed a soft tissue vertebral mass at T3-T4 disk space. Subsequent thoracic vertebral MRI was consistent with osteomyelitis with cord compression. Tissue culture from a CT-guided biopsy grew MRSA. The patient was successfully treated with Vancomycin. This is a rare presentation of vertebral osteomyelitis which poses an interesting diagnostic challenge. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3582057/ /pubmed/23476664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/416498 Text en Copyright © 2013 Cristian Landa 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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