title: [Tuberculous spondylitis--a contribution to the differential diagnosis of space-occupying lesions of the posterior mediastinum].
abstract: This report describes a 27-year-old male patient with advanced spondylitis tuberculosa, who, being suspected of having a malignant tumour, was submitted to a CT-guided biopsy. Treatment comprising CT-controlled insertion of a permanent drain, and antituberculous chemotherapy and dorsal stabilisation, was administered. A high-risk intervention (diagnostic and therapeutic thoracotomy with the attendant acute danger of paraplegia was avoided through the use of the most up-to-date imaging procedures available.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Thoraxchirurgie der Lungenklinik Heckeshorn, Berlin.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hering
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kroll
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kaminsky
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaiser
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Spondylitis tuberculosa--Ein Beitrag zur Differentialdiagnose der Raumforderungen des hinteren Mediastinums.