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The Open Infectious Diseases Journal is an Open Access journal, which publishes both original full-length and short research articles in all important areas of infectious diseases. It covers clinical, preclinical and experimental infectious diseases. research, discovery, development, and use of infectious disease therapies and interventions, including bacterial and fungal infections, viral infections (including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis), parasitological diseases, tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases. Articles on vaccines and devices, epidemiology, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and control of infectious diseases, drug-resistance, chronic infections, and tropical, emergent, pediatric, dermal and sexually-transmitted infectious diseases are also accepted.


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An Uncommon Presentation of Tuberculosis with Cervical Pott’s Disease Initially Suspected as Metastatic Lung Cancer

Roberta Buso, Marcello Rattazzi, Massimo Puato, Paolo Pauletto

Cervical Pott's disease is a rare clinical condition whose diagnosis is usually delayed. We report a case of lung tuberculosis (TB) and cervical Pott’s disease mimicking a metastatic lung cancer. The patient presented with persistent cervical pain. Radiologic examinations showed the presence of a lytic lesion of C3 vertebral body, associated with spinal cord compression. A CT scan of the thorax showed a lung nodule highly suspicious for malignancy in the apical region of right lung upper lobe. Neurosurgical decompression was performed. Unexpectedly, histological analysis showed the presence of an inflammatory infiltrate suggestive for TB infection. The patient was immediately treated with antituberculous drugs. Atypical forms of spinal TB, such as cervical TB, can be misdiagnosed as primary or metastatic cancers and lead to delay of treatment initiation that could be fatal. Awareness of this uncommon TB presentation is important to prevent morbidity and mortality associated with spinal cord injury and disease dissemination.


May 17, 2013
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