Suppurative psoas abscess is an unusual lesion that is unfamiliar to many orthopaedic specialists, which can make an accurate and timely diagnosis problematic. The symptoms associated with this ...

A man's severe back and belly pain turned out to be caused by a rare disease that causes pockets of pus to build up in a long muscle called the psoas. The 67-year-old man arrived at an emergency room ...

Psoas abscesses are rare complications of post-transplantation patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy. There is often a delay in diagnosis because of its relative infrequency and the nonspecific ...

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Study design: Single case report. Objectives: To present an unusual cause of fever in a patient with spinal cord injury (SCI). Setting: University Hospital, Belgium. Methods: A 52-year-old man with a ...

A previously well 12-year-old boy presented after 1 month of increasing right-sided hip pain with a limp, decreased energy and a 2-kg weight loss. He had no history of trauma, other joint problems, ...

Please I need help - fast ! I am very active in sport, but have had a debilitating infection (with a bad odour - not from urine, stools or vagina). Blood tests, ultrasounds, CT scans, xrays, etc, etc ...

Primary abscesses may be caused by infection with Staphylococcus or Streptococcus species. Rarely, Salmonella typhi may be responsible for primary abscess. [7] Gram-negative organisms and anaerobes ...

Read at the meeting of the New England Surgical Society, at Hartford, Conn., October 1, 1932. Barney — Chief of Service, Urological Department, Massachusetts General Hospital. For record and address ...

When elite ultrarunner Mike Wolfe laced up for a tempo run in June 2009, his right hip flexor felt tender and sore. But nothing out of the ordinary for a runner who, in a weekend, can cover 75 miles ...

Doctors determined a man's severe back pain was caused by a rare disease that leads to pus buildup in the psoas muscle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...