Open AccessSingle cervical spinal extramedullary tuberculous lesion in a young female – case report
Author(s) -
Alexandra Bibiriță,
Alexandru Nicolae,
Adrian Dumitru,
Daniel Mihai Teleanu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
romanian journal of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2069-6094
pISSN - 1843-8148
DOI - 10.37897/rjn.2021.1.17
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , neck pain , lesion , spinal cord , disease , biopsy , back pain , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine , psychiatry
Skeletal tuberculosis is the main extrapulmonary site for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection disemination. As for the nervous sistem tuberculosis or spinal tuberculous disease in particular, the osseos elements are more frequently involved than the cerebral tissue or the spinal cord. We present the case of a previously healthy 32 year old female with no known TB history, reffered to our clinic for neck pain thought to be due to degenerative spinal disc disease. In the absence of general signs of the disease, the right surgical management and biopsy were the key factors for corect diagnosis.