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Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
Yin and yang of Pott’s disease
  1. Rodrigo Pires dos Santos1,
  2. Ricardo Ariel Zimerman2,
  3. Luciano Zubaran Goldani2
  1. 1
    Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Infectious Disease Unit/Infection Control Department, 2225, Ramiro Barcelos 2350, Porto Alegre 90035003, Brazil
  2. 2
    Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Ramiro Barcelos 2350, Porto Alegre, 90035003, Brazil
  1. rpsrodrigo{at}gmail.com

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A 45-year-old man co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C was admitted with low-grade fever, abdominal pain and a protrusive mass in the flank. He had been taking highly active antiretroviral therapy regularly for 2 years, his viral load was below 50 copies/ml and his CD4 cell count was 216 cells/μl. Abdominal computerised tomography showed lytic lesions on …

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