Spinal tuberculosis simulating metastatic malignancy:An unusual condition

• 作 者: Jacopo Giuliani Benedetta Urbini
• 机 构: Department of Oncology,Mater Salutis Hospital,ASL 21,della Regione Veneto,Legnago(VR),Italy,Clinical
• 出 处: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine
• 发表日期: 2014年01期
• 关键词: metastatic Hodgkin tuberculosis malignancy vertebral radiological spine thyroid

Vertebral lesions can refer to many conditions with different clinical and radiological features suggestive but inconclusive for a diagnosis.The differential diagnosis of vertebral lesions includes malignant primary tumors of the spine,metastatic tumors(carcinoma of the lung,kidney,prostate,thyroid,gastro-intestinal tract and breast,although less frequent in males,and occult cancer),haematological malignancies(plasmocytoma,Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin

Vertebral lesions can be referred to many conditions with different clinical and radiological features suggestive but inconclusive for a diagnosis. The differential diagnosis of vertebral lesions includes malignant primary tumors of the spine, metastatic tumors (carcinoma of the lung, kidney, prostate, thyroid, gastro- intestinal tract and breast, although less frequent in males, and occult cancer), haematological malignancies (plasmocytoma, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin