Gas gangrene presenting with back pain

Gas Gangrene

Gas Gangrene

A Huge Cystic Retroperitoneal Lymphangioma Presenting with Back Pain

Retroperitoneal lymphangioma is a rare location and type of benign abdominal tumors. The clinical presentation of this rare disease is nonspecific, ranging from abdominal distention to sepsis. Here we present a 73-year-old female patient with 3-month history of back pain. USG and CT revealed a huge cystic mass which was surgically excised and appeared to be lymphangioma on histopathology.

Alveolar soft part sarcoma presenting with back pain.

Thompson AT, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-218639 DESCRIPTION A 35-year-old man was referred to the Sarcoma service with a 2-year history of worsening back pain, left-sided radicular pain and a mass on CT scan. In the 6 months following the onset of the back pain, he developed progressive numbness and paraesthesia in the L2 dermatome. This was worse on standing. On clinical exa...

A patient presenting with abdominal pain radiating to the back

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