MR Imaging of Intraspinal TB - A Misguide in Disguise

Abstract

Asutosh Dave1 , Jitendra Kumar Singh2 , Vishal Patel3

A 47-year-old female patient came with complaints of low back pain with progressive numbness and pain in left lower limb. She also had intermittent fever with significant weight loss of 15 kgs over the last 6 months. She has been taking anti-TB drugs since 1 year but discontinued 3 months back, after which her symptoms worsened. She complained of fever accompanied by weight loss along with low back pain and lower limb weakness 1 year back. She then underwent for MRI scan in our dept.

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