Tuberculosis of Spine May Mimic Lymphoma

Jalal Mohsin Uddin1, AHM Raihanuzzaman Sarkar 2, Md Khairul Hassan Jessy3,Shamsul Arafeen Khan4

Abstract
Spinal tuberculosis (TB spine) is the most common form of skeletal tuberculosis. Majority of patients are
under thirty years of age at the time of diagnosis. Constitutional symptoms such as weakness, loss of
appetite and weight, evening rise of temperature and night sweats generally occur before the symptoms
related to the spine manifest. Spinal TB is a very dangerous type of skeletal TB as it can be associated
with neurologic deficit due to compression of adjacent neural structures and significant spinal deformity.
Here we report a case of disseminated TB of a young lady who was presented with paraplegia and initially
was diagnosed lymphoma.
Key Words: Spine TB, Lymphoma.

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