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Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
Iliopsoas tuberculous abscess associated with cervical and axillary tuberculous lymphadenopathy
  1. Dimitrios Latsios1,
  2. Diamantis Chloros1,
  3. Dionisios Spyratos1,
  4. Loukas Dagdilelis2,
  5. Lazaros Sichletidis1
  1. 1Pulmonary Clinic, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
  2. 2Department of Radiology, G. Papanicolaou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  1. Correspondence to Professor Lazaros Sichletidis, sichlet{at}med.auth.gr

Summary

The authors report a case of iliopsoas tuberculous abscess without obvious spinal column involvement. Cervical and axillary tuberculous lymphadenopathy were also presented. Despite appropriate antituberculous treatment, patient required percutaneous drainage with CT-guided catheter insertion.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.03.2011.4037

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