Unusual Case of Osteomyelitis and Discitis in a Drug User with a Background of Chronic Back Pain: Do Not Miss the Serious Etiologies

Chronic back pain is a common presenting complaint that is frequently encountered by clinicians. The challenge for clinicians is identifying the relatively few patients with a significant probability of a more serious problem that requires further evaluation. Such individuals require further evaluat...

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Autores principales: Ali, Alaa M., Khan, Moona, Kwatra, Shawn G., Barbaryan, Aram, Hussain, Nasir, Saba, Raya, Mirrakhimov, Aibek E.
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/PMC3807833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24198986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/729812
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author Ali, Alaa M.
Khan, Moona
Kwatra, Shawn G.
Barbaryan, Aram
Hussain, Nasir
Saba, Raya
Mirrakhimov, Aibek E.
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description Chronic back pain is a common presenting complaint that is frequently encountered by clinicians. The challenge for clinicians is identifying the relatively few patients with a significant probability of a more serious problem that requires further evaluation. Such individuals require further evaluation for possible occult malignancy, infection, or fracture. We present a case of a 50-year-old male with a past medical history of chronic back pain and IV drug abuse who presented with acute back pain and in whom a diagnosis of vertebral osteomyelitis was missed during multiple visits to the emergency room.
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spelling pubmed-38078332013-11-06 Unusual Case of Osteomyelitis and Discitis in a Drug User with a Background of Chronic Back Pain: Do Not Miss the Serious Etiologies Ali, Alaa M. Khan, Moona Kwatra, Shawn G. Barbaryan, Aram Hussain, Nasir Saba, Raya Mirrakhimov, Aibek E. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Chronic back pain is a common presenting complaint that is frequently encountered by clinicians. The challenge for clinicians is identifying the relatively few patients with a significant probability of a more serious problem that requires further evaluation. Such individuals require further evaluation for possible occult malignancy, infection, or fracture. We present a case of a 50-year-old male with a past medical history of chronic back pain and IV drug abuse who presented with acute back pain and in whom a diagnosis of vertebral osteomyelitis was missed during multiple visits to the emergency room. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3807833/ /pubmed/24198986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/729812 Text en Copyright © 2013 Alaa M. Ali 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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Ali, Alaa M.
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Kwatra, Shawn G.
Barbaryan, Aram
Hussain, Nasir
Saba, Raya
Mirrakhimov, Aibek E.
Unusual Case of Osteomyelitis and Discitis in a Drug User with a Background of Chronic Back Pain: Do Not Miss the Serious Etiologies
title Unusual Case of Osteomyelitis and Discitis in a Drug User with a Background of Chronic Back Pain: Do Not Miss the Serious Etiologies
title_full Unusual Case of Osteomyelitis and Discitis in a Drug User with a Background of Chronic Back Pain: Do Not Miss the Serious Etiologies
title_fullStr Unusual Case of Osteomyelitis and Discitis in a Drug User with a Background of Chronic Back Pain: Do Not Miss the Serious Etiologies
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Case of Osteomyelitis and Discitis in a Drug User with a Background of Chronic Back Pain: Do Not Miss the Serious Etiologies
title_short Unusual Case of Osteomyelitis and Discitis in a Drug User with a Background of Chronic Back Pain: Do Not Miss the Serious Etiologies
title_sort unusual case of osteomyelitis and discitis in a drug user with a background of chronic back pain: do not miss the serious etiologies
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24198986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/729812
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