Non‐contiguous multilevel spinal tuberculosis: A case report of unusual spinal tuberculosis resembling spinal metastasis
Salman Abbasi Fard, Pouria Pourzand, Farhad Tabasi, Mohsen Mohammadi, Mohammad Nafeli, Zahra Jourahmad
Clinical Case Reports · 2023-03
Abstract
Spinal tuberculosis (TB) is diagnostically challenging, particularly in atypical forms. Non-contiguous multilevel spinal TB (NMLST) is a rare presentation of spinal TB, mimicking spinal malignancies. We reported an unusual NMLST case with a paraspinal and epidural abscess in a young patient with misleading clinical and imaging presentations.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Presentation (obstetrics)
- Spinal epidural abscess
- Radiology
- Spinal surgery
- Pathology
- Magnetic resonance imaging