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Acute Psoas Abscess
A collection of pus in and around the psoas major muscle is generally chronic in nature and secondary to tuberculous disease of the spine. However, sometimes it is of an acute type. Such a case is seldom diagnosed correctly, not because the condition is rare or obscure but because the frequency of its occurrence is not appreciated. Recently Sworn (1933) has described three cases and quoted more...
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Psoas abscess is a rare condition, and is classified as either primary (haematogenous spread from a distant infection) or secondary (local spread from an infective process). In the past, secondary cases resulting from spinal tuberculosis (TB) were the most common, but this has changed with the fall in prevalence of TB in many parts of the world. Now the most common causes of secondary cases in ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.632