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CASE REPORTS: Spinal african histoplamosis simulating tuberculous spondylitis: A case report


Florence Musoke

Abstract

Spinal histoplasmosis is a rare disease condition that must be differentiated from other common inflammatory lesions of the spine such as tuberculosis. A case is presented of a pathologically proven African spinal hisptoplasmosis in a 39-year old female.

Paraplegia and fever were the patient clinical fingings. Cervical plain radiography demonstrated a lytic destructive process of the lower cervical spine with radiographic signs similar to tuberculosis. The surgical management and chemotherapy of histoplasmosis are briefly discussed.




African Health Sciences 2001; 1(1): 28-29.

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