A childhood case of spinal tuberculosis misdiagnosed as muscular dystrophy

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Doo Il Song (مؤلف), Su Ye Sohn (مؤلف), Yun Kyung Kim (مؤلف), So Hee Eun (مؤلف), Young Jun Rhie (مؤلف), Gi Young Jang (مؤلف), Chan Wook Woo (مؤلف), Byung Min Choi (مؤلف), Jung Hwa Lee (مؤلف), Bo Kyung Je (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Korean Pediatric Society, 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Tuberculosis is primarily a pulmonary disease, but extra-pulmonary manifestations are not uncommon, especially in children and adolescents. Ten percent of extra pulmonary tuberculosis localizes to the bones and joints, and 56% of such cases affect the spine. We treated a childhood case of spinal tub...