ea0021p56 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2009
Ali Mansoor
, Andrew Julie
, Mbagaya Wycliffe
, Orme Steve
A 39-year-old rugby league player was admitted with back pain to an Endocrinology/General Medicine ward. He was diagnosed with osteomyelitis of the spine and was treated with antibiotic. During his prolonged in-patient stay (6 weeks i.v. antibiotic treatment), the presence of purple striae on his lower abdomen was noted. Although he did not have other classical features of a Cushings syndrome including proximal myopathy, he had an increased BMI (38 kg/m2) and ...