Bilateral psoas abscess in a renal transplant patient
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Bilateral psoas abscess in a renal transplant patient.
A 51-year old male with type 2 diabetes mellitus who underwent living donor kidney transplantation two months earlier was admitted with low back pain, general ill health, and a 5 kg weight loss over one month. Immediate post transplant period was complicated by an acute tubular necrosis of the graft and he was intermittently dialysed via a femoral line for ten days, as his shunt flow was inadeq...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v57i4.5090