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Mycobacterium avium complex spinal epidural abscess in an HIV patient
1Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia. rotstein@netspace.net.au
Australasian Radiology
|July 21, 2000
Abstract:
Although Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is the most common opportunistic bacterial infection in AIDS patients, epidural involvement is rare. A case of MAC spinal epidural abscess without vertebral osteomyelitis, that was continuous with presacral and bilateral piriformis muscle inflammation, is reported.