2006
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822006000300011
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Tuberculose vertebral (doença de Pott) associada a abscesso de psoas: relato de dois casos e revisão da literatura

Abstract: A tuberculose é uma das principais causas de morte entre as doenças infecciosas, com cerca de 1, 8 ABSTRACTTuberculosis is one of the most important infectious disease worldwide, with 3,9 million reported cases in the world in 2002. The skeletal form is responsible for 3% of the total number of cases, with 50% of these due to spinal tuberculosis. The psoas abscess is a rare clinical entity with approximately 12 cases per year described in the medical literature and has in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, one o… Show more

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“…We believe that the etiology of this PA could be related to an extrapulmonary form of Tuberculosis (Pott’s disease), as the patient lived in a proper environment for development of this illness (overpopulated area), and it has been shown in the literature an association between both diseases [20] .…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…We believe that the etiology of this PA could be related to an extrapulmonary form of Tuberculosis (Pott’s disease), as the patient lived in a proper environment for development of this illness (overpopulated area), and it has been shown in the literature an association between both diseases [20] .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is an underdiagnosed disease that can produce vague clinical characteristics, causing difficulty in its diagnosis [1] , [2] . Cases of psoas abscess in puerperal primipara women [3] , diabetic patients [4] , elderly [5] , and in cases associated with Pott disease [6] and AIDS [2] were reported in the literature.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…7 A velocidade de hemossedimentação também é outro parâmetro que se apresenta frequentemente elevado (>50 em 73% das ocasiões), assim com a aspartato aminotransferase (>40 em 38% dos casos). 3,7 A paciente do caso, por exemplo, apresentou tais alterações em seus exames.…”
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“…O tratamento desta enfermidade permanece controverso (6) . A drenagem de abscessos e a curetagem dos fragmentos ósseos e de disco sequestrados, seguida da colocação de órteses, podem levar ao agravamento da cifose (7) . O tratamento quimioterápico isolado está relacionado a uma alta incidência de progressão da cifose e a uma baixa taxa de fusão dos corpos vertebrais (6) .…”
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