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Resolving solitary osteolytic lumbar tuberculosis in young adult.
British Journal of Neurosurgery 2021 July 11
Lumbar vertebral tuberculosis presenting with a focal solitary osteolytic lesion is rare in spinal tuberculosis (TB) and the English literature describing this entity is scant. The differential diagnosis includes primary and secondary malignancies. In this report, we describe a case of 35-year-old woman who presented with low back pain and was found to have a focal L4 vertebral lytic lesion on MRI and CT. Whole body CT was carried out as a potential malignancy staging procedure and demonstrated lung lesions suggestive of TB. Her neurological and general examination were entirely normal. Her blood test was positive for QuantiFERON Gold. She was managed conservatively with anti-TB medications and serial imaging which showed evidence of resolution of the osteolytic lesion. Although it is unusual for TB to present as an isolated osteolytic vertebral body lesion, the possibility should always be considered in the differential diagnosis, along with neoplastic processes. Conservative medical management, in the absence of neurological deficits and deformity, is the main stay of management with a very good outlook.
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