CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2022; 21(01): 069-072
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1746176
Case Report

Detection of Spinal Tuberculosis by F-18 FDG PET/CT as a Cause of Unusual Referred Pain in the Right Upper Quadrant of Abdomen

Santhosh Sampath
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
,
Pandurangan Basumani
2   Department of Gastroenterology, Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
,
Anand Kothandaraman
2   Department of Gastroenterology, Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
,
Ravi Ramakrishnan
2   Department of Gastroenterology, Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Funding None.

Abstract

Tuberculous involvement of the spine (tuberculosis [TB] spine) can cause severe morbidity unless detected and treated early. Apart from the constitutional symptoms, it can present with back pain, kyphosis, gait abnormality, and paraplegia secondary to the bone or spinal cord involvement. There had been instances of TB spine presenting directly as abdominal pain due to psoas abscesses. Herein, we report a very rare clinical manifestation of TB spine as referred pain in the right upper abdominal quadrant due to right epidural phlegmon associated with T7 vertebra, detected by positron emission tomography.



Publication History

Article published online:
30 April 2022

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