A fatal case of spinal tuberculosis mistaken for metastatic lung cancer: Recalling ancient Pott's disease

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ringshausen, Felix C ^a,b   Tannapfel, Andrea ^c   Nicolas, Volkmar ^a   Weber, Andreas ^a   Duchna, Hans Werner ^a   Schultze Werninghaus, Gerhard ^a   Rohde, Gernot ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Spital Bülach ^*  (Switzerland)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ISONIAZID; METRONIDAZOLE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; APHASIA; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CACHEXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MENINGITIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NIGHT SWEAT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL;

EID: 71549138351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-8-32     Document Type: Article

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