Psoas abscess in neonates and infants are rare. Primary psoas abscesses are said to be more common in young children. Limping, fever and abdominal pain has been described to be the way psoas abscesses usually present. The authors describe the unusual presentation and successful treatment of a young child with a unilateral psoas abscess secondary to advanced spondylodiscitis.

The inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is sometimes complicated by the development of a psoas abscess. We recently encountered three patients of IBD with psoas abscess. Two patients had Crohn's ileocolitis and one with ulcerative colitis. During 1979-1984, 23 patients with psoas abscess due to a variety of underlying disease processes were seen at our institution. At the same time period, 483 cas...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the psoas tendon regenerates after arthroscopic tenotomy through the central compartment of the hip in patients with internal snapping hip. METHODS Twenty-seven patients with a snapping hip, aged 18 to 54 years (mean, 37.47 years), underwent arthroscopic tenotomy through the central compartment of the hip; all patients had symptomatic ...

The distribution of the Mg-dependent ATPase associated with a microsomal fraction of rabbit psoas muscle was studied histochemically and its localization in relation to the vesicles of the fraction and to the structure of intact fixed muscle was determined. Although enzyme activity was retained after fixation in hydroxyadipaldehyde and in glyoxal, it was lost after fixation in glutaraldehyde or...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate a quantitative method based on conventional T1-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to assess fatty muscular degeneration in patients with late-onset Pompe disease and to compare it with semi-quantitative visual evaluation (the Mercuri score). In addition, a long-term retrospective data analysis was performed to evaluate treatment respon...

INTRODUCTION Psoas abscess, a collection of pus in the iliopsoas compartment that has traditionally been classified as primary and secondary according to its origin. CASE PRESENTATION 48-year-old Turkish female presented to the department with fever, weakness and pain in the bilateral pelvic region. In contrast abdominal magnetic resonance, a collection compatible with the hyperintense absces...

Objective To assess the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the muscles for investigating the occurrence of asymmetry of the paraspinal (multifidus and erector spinae) and psoas muscles and its relation to the chronicity of unilateral lumbar radiculopathy using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Methods This retrospective study was conducted between January 2012 to December 2014. Sixty one patients ...

A 27-year-old male, admitted to hospital for a psoas muscle abscess secondary to Crohn's disease, suddenly died while in hospital. A medicolegal autopsy showed coronary sinus thrombosis. Coronary sinus thrombosis is rare and is usually associated with invasive cardiac procedures. Coronary sinus thrombosis associated with Crohn's disease has not been reported. Autopsy examination of the coronary...

Crossbred steers (n = 30) were used to explore and compare tenderness improvements in beef round and sirloin muscles resulting from various methods of prerigor skeletal separations. Animals were slaughtered according to industry procedures, and at 60 min postmortem one of six treatments was applied to each side: A) control, B) saw pelvis at the sirloin-round junction, C) separate the pelvic-fem...

Body composition is associated with risk of disease progression and treatment complications in a variety conditions. Therefore, quantification skeletal muscle mass adipose tissues on Computed Tomography (CT) and/or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) may inform surgery evaluation prognosis. This article describes two methods originally described by Mourtzakis et al. Avrutin al.: tissue segmentatio...