LESSON OF THE MONTH A visible and palpable cause of backache
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Backache with its many causes continues to present a challenge to the examining physician. Careful history taking, inspection and palpation still have an essential role, as well as the most modern imaging techniques. Although extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) has shown a disproportionate increase in recent years, muscular TB is still uncommon. Necropsies of 2224 TB cases revealed only four with TB myositis. Petter put the incidence of TB myositis at 0.015%. Here we present one of the rare manifestations of TB infection.
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