Case report and review: Potts disease and epididymal tuberculosis presenting as back pain and scrotal mass

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261.e3-261.e6

  Wiler, Jennifer L ^a   Shalev, Ronnie ^b   Filippone, Lisa ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BUTTOCK; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMAL TUBERCULOSIS; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; SCROTUM; SCROTUM DISORDER; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TESTIS DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

EID: 76249116187     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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