A 60-Year-Old Man with Gingivitis and Poorly Controlled Diabetes Developing Low Back Pain 1 Week Following Recovery from COVID-19 Diagnosed with Spinal Abscess Due to Streptococcus oralis

Eric Chun-Pu Chu; Robert J. Trager; Alan Te Chang Chen; John Sing Fai Shum

doi:10.12659/AJCR.937517

06 October 2022 : Case report Hong Kong

A 60-Year-Old Man with Gingivitis and Poorly Controlled Diabetes Developing Low Back Pain 1 Week Following Recovery from COVID-19 Diagnosed with Spinal Abscess Due to Streptococcus oralis

Challenging differential diagnosis, Rare disease

Eric Chun-Pu Chu

^1ABCDE, Robert J. Trager

^2CDEF*, Alan Te Chang Chen^1ABCDE, John Sing Fai Shum^3BCDE

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.937517

Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e937517

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Figure 4. Lumbar spine magnetic resonance image suggestive of psoas and paraspinal abscesses. An axial T2-weighted view at the level of L3 demonstrates T2 hyperintense muscular signal in the psoas muscles bilaterally and right transversospinalis muscles (arrowheads).

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A 60-Year-Old Man with Gingivitis and Poorly Controlled Diabetes Developing Low Back Pain 1 Week Following Recovery from COVID-19 Diagnosed with Spinal Abscess Due to Streptococcus oralis

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