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Gluteal Abscess: Diagnostic challenges and management

Author(s) -

Kishore Puthezhath,

Balaji Zacharia,

Tils P Mathew

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.485

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , abscess , gluteal region , presentation (obstetrics) , surgery , lumbar , extrapulmonary tuberculosis , feature (linguistics) , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , linguistics , philosophy

Gluteal abscess is a well-documented presentation of a caries spine and other local bony foci of tuberculosis. Still, during a PUBMED data search, only one report of vertebral tuberculosis presenting only as a gluteal abscess in adults was found in English medical literature. The current article describes a case of tuberculosis of the lumbar spine with gluteal abscess as the only clinical feature, in an immunocompetent young adult.

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