Tumor-like tuberculosis of the sacrum

Joint Bone Spine. 2000;67(5):468-70.

Abstract

Isolated tuberculosis of the sacrum in a 43-year-old woman manifested as functional impairment of the right lower limb. Sacral tuberculosis is rare in patients with no history of tuberculosis. Another unusual feature was the tumor-like aspect of the lesion, with diffuse, ill-defined osteolysis of a large part of the sacrum and extension to the presacral soft tissues responsible for rectal displacement.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
  • Chordoma / diagnosis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Isoniazid / therapeutic use
  • Osteolysis / diagnostic imaging
  • Osteolysis / etiology
  • Osteolysis / pathology
  • Rifampin / therapeutic use
  • Sacrum / diagnostic imaging
  • Sacrum / pathology*
  • Sacrum / surgery
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tuberculosis, Spinal / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Spinal / diagnostic imaging
  • Tuberculosis, Spinal / drug therapy

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents
  • Isoniazid
  • Rifampin