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Disease Information for Potts paraplegia/Epidural cold abscess

Clinical Manifestations
Signs & Symptoms: Chest Pain
: Hypertonia; Weakness, legs, bilateral
: Active reflexes; Hyperreflexia/DTRs increased; Leg reflexes, bilateral decrease; Paralysis; Spasms in Both Legs; Weak lower extremities
: Acute Back Pain; Back Pain; Back Pain on Percussion/Spine; Back/Spine/Axial Pain; Backache; Chronic Back Pain; Low Back Pain; Low Back Pain in Elderly; Spine pain/vertebral skeletal pain; Swelling Low Back Area
: Chronically ill patient/signs; Fever; Fever Febrile Possible; Flu-Like Syndrome; High body temperature; Weakness
Clinical Presentation & Variations: Presentation/Paralysis Progressive Legs Hips Painful
: Presentation/Back pain Hyperreflexia Incontinence
: Fever and High Sed Rate
Disease Progression: Course/Chronic disorder; Course/Chronic only
Demographics & Risk Factors
Past History: Past history/Tuberculosis
Laboratory Tests
Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured): Acute inflammatory markers elevated (Lab)
Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased: Highly sensitive CRP (LAB); Sed Rate/ESR/Sedimentation rate (Lab)
Diagnostic Test Results
CT Scan: MRI/Spinal cord abnormalities
: CT scan/Spine abnormal/Skeletal; CT Scan/Vertebral lesion; MRI/Spinal/back abnormal; MRI/Spine/vertebral abscess/lesion
X-RAY: Xray/Vertebral lesion
X-RAY With contrast: Myelogram Abnormal; Myelogram Spinal Cord abnormal
Associated Diseases & Rule outs
Rule Outs: Lathyrism/legume toxicity; Spinal stenosis syndrome
Associated Disease & Complications: Arthritis Axial Skeleton; Epidural Mass; Myelopathy manifestations/involvement; Paralytic Disorder; Paraparesis; Paraplegia; Paraplegia, spastic; Pott's paraplegia/spinal epidural cold abscess; Spinal cord compression; Spinal cord lesion/dysfunction; Tuberculosis
Disease Mechanism & Classification
Specific Agent: AGENT/Acid-fast bacteria (category); AGENT/Mycobacterium (ex)
Class: CLASS/Neurologic (category); CLASS/Spinal cord disorder (ex)
: CLASS/Dorsal spine involvement/disorder (ex); CLASS/Vertebra/Spine disorder (ex)
Pathophysiology: Pathophysiology/Extradural Spinal Mass
: Pathophysiology/Granulomatous abscess/spine
Process: PROCESS/Infection/Abscess (ex); PROCESS/Infection/agent specific (category)
Treatment
Drug Therapy - Indication: RX/Antibiotic
Surgical Procedures or Treatments: SX/Surgery; SX/Surgical resection/removal/biopsy
Definition: Be the first to add a definition for Potts paraplegia/Epidural cold abscess
External Links Related to Potts paraplegia/Epidural cold abscess: Google; Wikipedia; Merck; Images; PubMed (National Library of Medicine); NGC (National Guideline Clearinghouse); Medscape (eMedicine); Harrison's Online (accessmedicine); NEJM (The New England Journal of Medicine)

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