Lumbar Spinal Tuberculosis Presenting as Abdominal Pain: Case Report

Lumbar Spinal Tuberculosis Presenting as Abdominal Pain: Case Report

Abstract More than 230 years after the characteristic clinical features of tuberculosis spondylitis were first described, this serious infection can still present diagnostic dilemmas in clinical practice. Atypical presentations of spinal tuberculosis mimicking malignancy have been described. We repo...

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Main Authors: Zhaoyu Ba, Zhiyao Yong, Weidong Zhao, Bin Shen, Yufeng Huang, Desheng Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2015-08-01
Series:The Surgery Journal
Subjects:
abdominal pain
lumbar spinal
tuberculosis
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0035-1563612

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