[Camptocormia: an infrequent muscular disease].
The camptocormia is an entity characterized by a kyphosis lumbar reductible in supine decubitus, associated to dysfunctions in computed tomography scans and histologics in the paravertebrals muscles of the lumbar segment. We contribute a new case corresponding to a 70 year-old woman with chronic lumbar pain and kyphosis dorsolumbar reductible, in who the on-line tomography showed compatible images with fatty degeneration and atrophy of the lumbar musculature, discoveries that were confirmed in the histologic study.
Jiménez González
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Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Hospital Municipal de Badalona, Barcelona. 31297jma@comb.es
Pons Serra
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Castaño Moreno
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C
Monés Jiménez
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Martínez Rodenas
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F
D000368:Aged; D001284:Atrophy; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007738:Kyphosis / Q000150:complications*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology*; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed