AN ATYPICAL LOCALISATION OF TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING HAEMODIALYSIS: A CASE REPORT |
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| Authors: | Hasan Kayabasi Dede Sit Ali Kemal Kadiroglu Zulfukar Yilmaz Yasar Bukte |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Nephrology, Dicle University Medical Faculty, Diyarbakir, Turkey;2. Associate Professor, Clinics of Nephrology, Fatih Government Hospital, Trabzon, Turkey;3. Associate Professor, Department of Nephrology, Dicle University Medical Faculty, Diyarbakir, Turkey;4. Specialist, Department of ?nternal Medicine, Dicle University Medical Faculty, Diyarbakir, Turkey;5. Associate Professor, Department of Radiodiagnostics, Dicle University Medical Faculty, Diyarbakir, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | Spinal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare skeletal system localisation of TB in haemodialysis patients. In this paper, a case of Pott's disease with a psoas muscle abscess is reported. The patient had been on the dialysis programme for five years and was complaining of back pain, weight loss and weakness, which were investigated. A thoracolumbar magnetic resonance imaging showed multiple paravertebral abscesses invading the psoas muscle. TB diagnosis was made by microbiological analysis of specimen, which was obtained by fine needle aspiration under computerised tomography guidance. |
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| Keywords: | End stage renal disease (ESRD) Psoas abscess Spinal tuberculosis |
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