Dysphagia Revealing Cervical Pott's Sickness: A Study of Observation and Review of the Literature
Harine Abdel Aziz Garba, Adama Bah, Ramadhane Bouchrane, Vanessa Lienou Tagne, Sariette Carolne Ndoumbe Moukala Douala, Anne Stephanie Doun Fouda Elodie, Moustapha Niasse, Saïdou Diallo
SAS Journal of Medicine · 2022-11
Abstract
Cervical Pott's disease is an uncommon spinal location. Spinal cord compression and epidural abscesses are serious complications that can be life threatening. We report a case of cervical Pott's disease revealed by dysphagia due to a minimal retropharyngeal abscess in a 12-year-old Senegalese girl. This observation reveals one of the facets of tuberculosis, rarely described in Africa.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Dysphagia
- Tuberculosis
- Surgery
- Abscess
- Disease
- Neck pain
- Girl
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Cervical spine
- Spinal cord compression
- Epidural abscess
- Spinal cord