Torticollis as a sign of spinal tuberculosis

Bone localization of tuberculosis mainly affects the thoracolumbar spine. The cervical spine is rare. Its diagnosis is often late which exposes to great instability and potentially serious complications. We report the case of a 12-year old girl with no medical history, showing torticollis and high t...

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Autores principales: Boussetta, Rim, Zairi, Mohamed, Sami, Sami Bouchoucha, Lafrem, Rafik, Msakeni, Ahmed, Saied, Walid, Nessib, Nebil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7545976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088406
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.277.22977
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author Boussetta, Rim
Zairi, Mohamed
Sami, Sami Bouchoucha
Lafrem, Rafik
Msakeni, Ahmed
Saied, Walid
Nessib, Nebil
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Sami, Sami Bouchoucha
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description Bone localization of tuberculosis mainly affects the thoracolumbar spine. The cervical spine is rare. Its diagnosis is often late which exposes to great instability and potentially serious complications. We report the case of a 12-year old girl with no medical history, showing torticollis and high temperature without neurological complication. In the physical examination, he had torticollis and pain in the third, fourth and fifth cervical vertebra. When the biopsy was performed, we find an inter apophysis (between C7 and D1) collection. The histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of apophysis tuberculosis. The management based on tuberculosis chemotherapy and immobilization started as soon as possible.
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spelling pubmed-75459762020-10-20 Torticollis as a sign of spinal tuberculosis Boussetta, Rim Zairi, Mohamed Sami, Sami Bouchoucha Lafrem, Rafik Msakeni, Ahmed Saied, Walid Nessib, Nebil Pan Afr Med J Case Report Bone localization of tuberculosis mainly affects the thoracolumbar spine. The cervical spine is rare. Its diagnosis is often late which exposes to great instability and potentially serious complications. We report the case of a 12-year old girl with no medical history, showing torticollis and high temperature without neurological complication. In the physical examination, he had torticollis and pain in the third, fourth and fifth cervical vertebra. When the biopsy was performed, we find an inter apophysis (between C7 and D1) collection. The histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of apophysis tuberculosis. The management based on tuberculosis chemotherapy and immobilization started as soon as possible. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7545976/ /pubmed/33088406 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.277.22977 Text en Copyright: Rim Boussetta et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nessib, Nebil
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