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A Case Of Atypical Presentation of Thoracic Osteomyelitis & Paraspinal Abscess

Here presented is a case involving a 44-year-old man with a chief complaint of sharp lateral right-sided rib pain with notable radiation to the anterior portion of the thorax and minor radiation around the lateral back. The etiology of the pain and radiculopathy, which was initially attributed to a right-sided rib fracture, was later accurately credited to a paraspinal abscess discovered on a l...

Value of Paraspinal Electromyography in the Evaluation of Thoracic Myelopathy

=Abstract=The authors have performed paraspinal needle EMG studies in twenty five patients with thoracic myelopathy. They were divided into demonstrable thoracic lesions and non-demonstrable thoracic lesions by neuroimaging studies resulting in 1 2 cases of the former and 13 cases of the latter. There were abnormal paraspinal EMG findings in 8 3 % with demonstrable thoracic lesions. All five pa...

Rare thoracic mass lesion--myofibrobastoma.

Mesenchymal soft tissue masses are uncommon tumours of the chest. Myofibroblastoma is a recently described entity consisting of cells with origin from the myoepethelial cell, mostly seen as benign well-circumscribed neoplasms of the breast tissue. Though usually classified as a benign lesion, rarely it can be multifocal and prone to recurrence. We describe below the case of a 26-year-old female...

Thoracic Paraspinal Line in Hypertension and Mitral Valwlar Disease

THORACIC PARASPINAL LINE IN HYPERTENSION AND MITRAL VALWLAR DISEASE. S.K. Gupta and V. Mohan. Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu university, Varanasi, India. Thoracic paraspinal line produced by the posteromedial border of the left lung casts a linear shadow running along the left side of thoracic spine from the level of D4 to Dll or D12 vertebra medial to the shadow of descending tho...