Back Pain, Fever, and Cough in a 46-Year-Old Man

JAMA. 2021 Nov 23;326(20):2070-2071. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.17584.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Cough / etiology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fever / etiology
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification*
  • Patient Isolation
  • Saliva / microbiology
  • Spine / diagnostic imaging
  • Spine / pathology
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tuberculosis, Spinal / complications
  • Tuberculosis, Spinal / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tuberculosis, Spinal / drug therapy
  • Tuberculosis, Spinal / pathology

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents