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Everything’s Fine … Except His Spine

Clinician Reviews. 2018 August;28(8):16,24
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Everything’s Fine … Except His Spine

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The chest radiograph shows an approximately 3-cm cavitary lesion in the right upper lobe. Such a lesion can indicate lung abscess, neoplasm, or tuberculosis. 

Subsequent workup determined that he did, in fact, have tuberculosis, with involvement in his spine (known as Pott disease).

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