Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen

Tuberculous involvement of the spine (tuberculosis [TB] spine) can cause severe morbidity unless detected and treated early. Apart from the constitutional symptoms, it can present with back pain, kyphosis, gait abnormality, and paraplegia secondary to the bone or spinal cord involvement. There had b...

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Autores principales: Sampath, Santhosh, Basumani, Pandurangan, Kothandaraman, Anand, Ramakrishnan, Ravi
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Publicado: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9056119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502283
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1746176
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author Sampath, Santhosh
Basumani, Pandurangan
Kothandaraman, Anand
Ramakrishnan, Ravi
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description Tuberculous involvement of the spine (tuberculosis [TB] spine) can cause severe morbidity unless detected and treated early. Apart from the constitutional symptoms, it can present with back pain, kyphosis, gait abnormality, and paraplegia secondary to the bone or spinal cord involvement. There had been instances of TB spine presenting directly as abdominal pain due to psoas abscesses. Herein, we report a very rare clinical manifestation of TB spine as referred pain in the right upper abdominal quadrant due to right epidural phlegmon associated with T7 vertebra, detected by positron emission tomography.
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spelling pubmed-90561192022-05-01 Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen Sampath, Santhosh Basumani, Pandurangan Kothandaraman, Anand Ramakrishnan, Ravi World J Nucl Med Tuberculous involvement of the spine (tuberculosis [TB] spine) can cause severe morbidity unless detected and treated early. Apart from the constitutional symptoms, it can present with back pain, kyphosis, gait abnormality, and paraplegia secondary to the bone or spinal cord involvement. There had been instances of TB spine presenting directly as abdominal pain due to psoas abscesses. Herein, we report a very rare clinical manifestation of TB spine as referred pain in the right upper abdominal quadrant due to right epidural phlegmon associated with T7 vertebra, detected by positron emission tomography. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2022-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9056119/ /pubmed/35502283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1746176 Text en World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy (WARMTH). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Basumani, Pandurangan
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Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen
title Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen
title_full Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen
title_fullStr Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen
title_full_unstemmed Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen
title_short Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen
title_sort detection of spinal tuberculosis by f-18 fdg pet/ct as a cause of unusual referred pain in the right upper quadrant of abdomen
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9056119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502283
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1746176
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