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Neurology India
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ISSN: 0028-3886 EISSN: 0028-3886
Vol. 58, No. 1, 2010, pp. 125-127
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Bioline Code: ni10028
Full paper language: English
Document type: Case Report
Document available free of charge
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Neurology India, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2010, pp. 125-127
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Vertebral body hyperostosis as a presentation of Pott's disease: A report of two cases and literature review
Umredkar, Alok; Mohindra, Sandeep; Chhabra, Rajesh & Gupta, Rahul
Abstract
Vertebral body tuberculosis has numerous forms of presentations. We present two patients of Pott′s disease, in whom vertebral body hyperostosis was the radiological presentation. Both the patients had massive hyperostosis of vertebral bodies leading to the obliteration of the spinal canal and neurological deficits. The first case had associated lupus vulgaris, while the second patient had milliary mottling of lungs and calcified bilateral psoas muscles. Surgical decompression, followed by full-dose chemotherapy, remains the hallmark of management of this disease.
Keywords
Pott′s disease, hyperos tosis, lupus vulgaris, tuberculosis
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