Unusual Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Patient With Unsuspecting Chronic Back Pain

Chronic back pain is a common complaint in the United States. In patients from endemic areas, spinal tuberculosis should be a part of the differential diagnosis, especially after the failure of conventional pain management treatments. Although most cases of tuberculosis present with pulmonary compla...

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Autores principales: Kensinger, Morgan E, Adams, Kathleen, Shah, Jignesh, Zia, Mudassar, Floyd, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178498
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15177
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author Kensinger, Morgan E
Adams, Kathleen
Shah, Jignesh
Zia, Mudassar
Floyd, Joshua
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description Chronic back pain is a common complaint in the United States. In patients from endemic areas, spinal tuberculosis should be a part of the differential diagnosis, especially after the failure of conventional pain management treatments. Although most cases of tuberculosis present with pulmonary complaints, presented here is a case of isolated spinal tuberculosis with contiguous spread to the kidneys with the formation of psoas abscesses.
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spelling pubmed-82165752021-06-24 Unusual Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Patient With Unsuspecting Chronic Back Pain Kensinger, Morgan E Adams, Kathleen Shah, Jignesh Zia, Mudassar Floyd, Joshua Cureus Internal Medicine Chronic back pain is a common complaint in the United States. In patients from endemic areas, spinal tuberculosis should be a part of the differential diagnosis, especially after the failure of conventional pain management treatments. Although most cases of tuberculosis present with pulmonary complaints, presented here is a case of isolated spinal tuberculosis with contiguous spread to the kidneys with the formation of psoas abscesses. Cureus 2021-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8216575/ /pubmed/34178498 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15177 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kensinger et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kensinger, Morgan E
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Zia, Mudassar
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Unusual Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Patient With Unsuspecting Chronic Back Pain
title Unusual Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Patient With Unsuspecting Chronic Back Pain
title_full Unusual Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Patient With Unsuspecting Chronic Back Pain
title_fullStr Unusual Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Patient With Unsuspecting Chronic Back Pain
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Patient With Unsuspecting Chronic Back Pain
title_short Unusual Case of Renal Tuberculosis in a Patient With Unsuspecting Chronic Back Pain
title_sort unusual case of renal tuberculosis in a patient with unsuspecting chronic back pain
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178498
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15177
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