Open AccessLong segment spinal epidural abscess: An unusual presentation of spinal tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Sanjay Kumar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2395-7565
DOI - 10.31254/jmr.2019.5201
Subject(s) - spinal epidural abscess , medicine , tuberculosis , presentation (obstetrics) , surgery , abscess , intervention (counseling) , pathology , psychiatry
Spinal tuberculosis has a significant disease burden in India and presents with a myriad of features on neuroimaging. Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is relatively rare diagnosis. Long segment SEA is a possibility in patients with spinal tuberculosis and these patients will respond to conservative’s management with ATT unlike pyogenic SEA which frequently may require early surgical intervention
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