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- Title
How deep a superficial gravity abscess?
- Authors
Chen, S.-C.; Chang, W.-C.; Lin, Y.-Y.; Wu, C.-P.; Tsai, S.-H.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a tuberculosis psoas abscess found in a 32-year-old man with a history of alcoholic liver disease. This kind of abscess is usually found in association with tuberculosis spondylitis or Pott's disease. The patient, who has a history of alcoholic liver disease, presented with progressive left-sided back pain over the previous several weeks and displayed palpable soft tissue masses over left-sided groin and back two weeks before admission.
- Subjects
ABSCESS treatment; POTT'S disease; SPINAL tuberculosis; ALCOHOLIC liver diseases; ABDOMINAL abscess; SOFT tissue tumors; SPONDYLITIS; PATIENTS
- Publication
Internal Medicine Journal, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 1, p64
- ISSN
1444-0903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1445-5994.2006.01250.x