https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2022.2311
Musculoskeletal tuberculosis with multifocal muscle abscesses in a healthy young adult
Submitted: May 2, 2022
Accepted: October 6, 2022
Published: October 11, 2022
Accepted: October 6, 2022
Abstract Views: 910
PDF: 169
Publisher's note
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.
Authors
Musculoskeletal tuberculosis represents 1% of total tuberculosis cases. It affects young adults from endemic countries or immunocompromised patients, and may lead to severe functional impairment. We report a case of a 27-year-old male from an endemic country presenting with a 4-month history of fever, a major pectoralis abscess, and low back pain. A lumbar spine MRI revealed osteolytic lesions in multiple vertebral bodies along with a large iliopsoas abscess. Both abscesses were drained and the diagnosis was established by positive polymerase chain reaction assay for tuberculosis. The patient was initiated on anti-tuberculous treatment for 9 months. Musculoskeletal tuberculosis is rarely found in Western countries. If left untreated, it can lead to severe complications which may require surgical intervention.
Leonard MK, Blumberg HM. Musculoskeletal tuberculosis. Microbiol Spectrum 2017;5:TNMI7-0046-2017.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/microbiolspec.TNMI7-0046-2017
López VN, Ramos JM, Meseguer V, et al. Microbiology and outcome of iliopsoas abscess in 124 patients. Medicine (Baltimore) 2009;88:120-30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0b013e31819d2748
Yacoub WN, Sohn HJ, Chan S, et al. Psoas abscess rarely requires surgical intervention. Am J Surg 2008;196:223-7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.07.032
Turgut M. Spinal tuberculosis (Pott's disease): its clinical presentation, surgical management, and outcome. A survey study on 694 patients. Neurosurg Rev 2001;24:8-13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00011973
Nahid P, Dorman SE, Alipanah N, et al. Official American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America clinical practice guidelines: treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis 2016;63:e147-95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw376
Aryal A, Garg B, Mehta N, et al. Is 6 months of antitubercular chemotherapy as effective as more than 6 months regimen in spinal tuberculosis? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Asian Spine J 2021;asj.2021.0104. Online ahead of print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2021.0104
How to Cite
Gkogkos, Vasileios, Georgia-Emmanouela Dendrinou, Ioanna Papadaki, Maria Christodoulou, Charalampos Stoumpos, Timothy Sakellaridis, Kyriaki Zeibecoglou, and Dimitrios Papadopoulos. 2022. “Musculoskeletal Tuberculosis With Multifocal Muscle Abscesses in a Healthy Young Adult”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 93 (3). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2022.2311.
Copyright (c) 2022 The Author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
PAGEPress has chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all manuscripts to be published.
Similar Articles
- Saroj Kumari Meena, Rajnish Gupta, Manmohan Puri, Existence and pattern of sleep-related breathing disorders in patients diagnosed with bronchial asthma , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Early Access
- Govind Desai, Gopal Purohit, Hemant Borana, Kunal Deokar, Suresh Yogi, Comparison of efficacy of bedaquiline and moxifloxacin in drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis. A prospective observational study , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Vol. 93 No. 1 (2023)
- Manu Madan, AJ Mahendran, Rohit Kumar, Yash Kedia, Rajnish Kaushik, Pranav Ish, Shibdas Chakrabarti, Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Nitesh Gupta, Comparative yield of transbronchial cryo-nodal biopsy, transbronchial intra-nodal forceps biopsy, and transbronchial needle aspiration for mediastinal lesions at a tertiary care center in India (COLD-FORCEPS study) , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Vol. 95 No. 1 (2025)
- Roshni Mary Prince, Suman Khangarot, Qazi Faizanul Haque, Anish Mittal, Ramdhan Somani, Mansha Grover, Outcomes of bedaquiline-containing regimen in the treatment of adults with drug-resistant tuberculosis in a tertiary care center in Rajasthan , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Vol. 94 No. 2 (2024)
- Fatemeh Khelghati, Fatemeh Nasirpour Seilakhori, Mehdi Goudarzi, Shima Malekloo, Amir Hashem Shahidi Bonjar, Hossein Goudarzi, Mohammad Javad Nasiri, Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Iran: a multicenter study , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Vol. 95 No. 1 (2025)
- Parul Mrigpuri, Sidharth Raj Yadav, Divyendu Sharma, Sonam Spalgais, Vidushi Rathi, Nitin Goel, Balakrishnan Menon, Raj Kumar, Virtual bronchoscopic navigation and guided radial endobronchial ultrasound for peripheral pulmonary lesions: harmonizing modalities to optimize accuracy , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Early Access
- Firas Aljanadi, Jonathan Strickland, Liana Montgomery, Mark Jones, Review of patients discharged post thoracic surgery with chest drain in situ and nurse-based follow-up clinic , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Vol. 94 No. 2 (2024)
- Malay Sarkar, Incipient and subclinical tuberculosis: a narrative review , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Early Access
- Aninda Debnath, Ravindra Nath, Anubhav Mondal, Pankaj Chandrabhan Nathe, Jugal Kishore, Pranav Ish, Vidushi Rathi, Jagdish Kaur, Prevalence of tobacco consumption among pulmonary tuberculosis patients and its correlation with tuberculosis incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis in the Indian context , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Early Access
- Surabhi Panduranga Kodical, Rishabh Roy, Deekshitha Shetty, Nandakumar UP, Rajesh V, Sharad Chand, Reshma Kolar, Praneetha Jain, Exploring factors influencing the health-related quality of life of tuberculosis patients: a WHOQOL-BREF-based study , Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease: Early Access
<< < 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 > >>
You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.
