Pott's disease associated with large and multiple abscesses in a 30-year-old migrant from Chad

BMJ Case Rep. 2018 Jan 29:2018:bcr2017222420. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-222420.

Authors

Anne Conrad^{1

2

3

4}, Tristan Ferry^{1

3

2

4}, Florence Ader^{1

3

2

4}, Florent Valour^{1

3

2

4}; Lyon BJI Study group.

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases Department, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
² Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.
³ Centre Interrégional de Référence des Infections Ostéo-articulaires complexes (CRIOAc Lyon), Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
⁴ Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, CIRI, Inserm U1111, CNRS UMR 5308, ENS de Lyon, UCBL1, Lyon, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: bone and joint infections; tb and other respiratory infections.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Abscess / diagnosis*
Abscess / diagnostic imaging
Abscess / drug therapy
Abscess / microbiology
Adult
Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
Chad / ethnology
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
Thoracic Vertebrae*
Transients and Migrants
Tuberculosis, Spinal / diagnosis*
Tuberculosis, Spinal / diagnostic imaging
Tuberculosis, Spinal / drug therapy
Tuberculosis, Spinal / microbiology

Substances

Antitubercular Agents