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A neck mass with brachial plexus injury: Pott's disease
- Source :
- American Journal of Otolaryngology. 30:350-352
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2009.
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Abstract
- Tuberculous osteomyelitis of the spine is most commonly seen in lower thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. Cervical spine tuberculosis is a very rare condition, and it represents a very small part of all patients with Pott's disease. We present a case with thoraco-cervical Pott's disease, with left-sided neck mass and left arm and hand weakness and numbness. The patient had a paraspinal abscess under the sternocleidomastoid muscle that was compressing the brachial plexus.
- Subjects :
- Male
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
Tuberculosis
Neck mass
Antitubercular Agents
Disease
Lumbar vertebrae
Thoracic Vertebrae
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Medicine
Brachial Plexus
Lumbar Vertebrae
Muscle Weakness
business.industry
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Middle Aged
musculoskeletal system
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Cervical spine
Abscess
Surgery
Treatment Outcome
medicine.anatomical_structure
Otorhinolaryngology
Brachial plexus injury
Tuberculosis, Spinal
medicine.symptom
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Sternocleidomastoid muscle
Brachial plexus
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01960709
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Otolaryngology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....be1e9041ba8bf476b5e8295cdb495f59
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjoto.2008.06.016