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Case Reports

. 2007 Jul 17;177(2):148.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.070146.

Disseminated tubercular osteitis

Pierre Sellier¹, Annabelle Wyler

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PMID: 17638950
PMCID: PMC1913123
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.070146

Case Reports

Disseminated tubercular osteitis

Pierre Sellier et al. CMAJ. 2007.

. 2007 Jul 17;177(2):148.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.070146.

Authors

Pierre Sellier¹, Annabelle Wyler

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France.

PMID: 17638950
PMCID: PMC1913123
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.070146

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None — Figure. CT scan of the lumbar spine of a 26-year-old man from India who presented with low back pain, fever and weight loss of 3 weeks' duration.

None — Figure 1: An axial reconstruction of a CT scan of the lumbar spine (the L3 vertebra, in this image), with use of a soft-tissue filter. Small, round, lytic bone lesions were found with well-defined margins, surrounding sclerosis and central opacity (arrowheads). This central opacity is called a button sequestrum sign.

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