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- Title
Back pain, right-sided weakness, and paresthesia in a healthy adult male.
- Authors
Kilgore, William P.; Duran-Stanton, M.
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 33-year-old infantry soldier with complaints of midthoracic back pain, paresthesias and numbness that radiated from his right shoulder to his fingers. Subsequent computed tomography (CT) of the thoracic spine revealed a congenital anomaly leading to Butterfly vertebra (BV). BV should be diagnosed, properly interpreting CT image and considering factors including the degree of malformation; bone mineral density; and underlying vertebral or bone disease.
- Subjects
CHOLECYSTITIS; BACKACHE; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; THORACIC vertebrae; VERTEBRAE; PARESTHESIA; COMPRESSION fractures; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (Haymarket Media, Inc.), 2012, Vol 25, Issue 12, p33
- ISSN
1547-1896
- Publication type
Case Study