Open AccessThe great simulator: A historical presentation involving miliary tuberculosis and Pott’s disease in an immunocompetent young female patient aged 25
Author(s) -
S. Belghali,
D. Amri,
K. Baccouche,
Senda Mejdoub,
H. Zeglaoui,
E. Bouajina
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
egyptian journal of chest diseases and tuberculosis/egyptian journal of chest diseases and tuberculosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2090-9950
pISSN - 0422-7638
DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcdt.2017.04.003
Subject(s) - medicine , spondylodiscitis , miliary tuberculosis , tuberculosis , presentation (obstetrics) , abscess , back pain , surgery , disease , pediatrics , radiology , pathology , alternative medicine
The association between miliary tuberculous and spondylodiscitis is rarely described in the literature and usually occurs in immunocompromised patients. We report the case of an immunocompetent woman aged 25, suffering from inflammatory back pain associated with fever and weight loss in postpartum. Chest CT-scan showed a miliary and spine CT-scan revealed the presence of staged spondylodiscitis with epiduritis. The diagnosis of tuberculosis was made by the detection of bacillus in the pus of paravertebral abscess