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A child presenting with tuberculous spondylitis in a single third cervical vertebra: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, August 2014
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Title
A child presenting with tuberculous spondylitis in a single third cervical vertebra: a case report
Published in
Journal of Medical Case Reports, August 2014
DOI 10.1186/1752-1947-8-284
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Authors

Manouri P Senanayake, Irantha Karunaratne

Abstract

Despite a global reduction in tuberculosis, extrapulmonary tuberculosis is increasing. Spinal tuberculosis remains the commonest form of skeletal tuberculosis. Cervical spine involvement is rare but is the most dangerous form because of diagnostic difficulties and serious residual disability. We report a child who had single vertebral involvement of her third cervical vertebra which is extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge isolated third cervical vertebra involvement in a child by tuberculosis has not been reported previously. Difficulties in obtaining material for histology and bacterial culture from this critical location and how the diagnosis was reached despite these challenges are highlighted.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Bangladesh 1 1%
Unknown 99 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 18%
Researcher 12 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 11%
Student > Postgraduate 10 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 14 14%
Unknown 29 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 36%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 6%
Psychology 4 4%
Neuroscience 3 3%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 36 36%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 September 2014.
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#14,199,380
of 22,761,738 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#1,106
of 3,904 outputs
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#121,280
of 235,668 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Case Reports
#19
of 46 outputs
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