Medisan (Feb 2020)

Advanced vertebral tuberculosis in an adolescent

  • Enri Rodríguez Montero,
  • Gerardo Téllez Gamayo,
  • Fátima Flores Bolivar

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 1
pp. 117 – 125

Abstract

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The case report of an 18 years patient, HIV seropositive is described. He was assisted at Luena Provincial Hospital, angolan province of Moxico due to a lumbar pain. A computerized axial tomography was carried out, which showed great vertebral destruction and bilateral paravertebral collections. The patient maintained an unfavorable clinical course and died 20 days after the diagnosis.

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