Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics

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A childhood case of spinal tuberculosis misdiagnosed as muscular dystrophy

  • Song, Doo-Il (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Sohn, Su-Ye (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Kim, Yun-Kyung (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Eun, So-Hee (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Rhie, Young-Jun (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Jang, Gi-Young (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Woo, Chan-Wook (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Choi, Byung-Min (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Lee, Jung-Hwa (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
  • Je, Bo-Kyung (Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Korea University)
  • Received : 2009.09.14
  • Accepted : 2009.12.01
  • Published : 2010.05.15
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Abstract

Tuberculosis is primarily a pulmonary disease, but extra-pulmonary manifestations are not uncommon, especially in children and adolescents. Ten percent of extra pulmonary tuberculosis localizes to the bones and joints, and 56% of such cases affect the spine. We treated a childhood case of spinal tuberculosis misdiagnosed as muscular dystrophy in a patient without specific constitutional symptoms. We report this case because the patient had an unusual presentation of spinal tuberculosis.

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