Case report: When infection lurks behind malignancy: a unique case of primary bone lymphoma mimicking infectious process in the spine.

Primary bone lymphoma of the spine (PBL) is a rare entity that may be misdiagnosed due to its atypical location and clinical and imaging features mimicking certain pathologies as infectious processes, which complicates and delays diagnosis. Our case reports a patient in her sixties who had been suffering from chronic low back pain for a year, and had gradually started to develop cruralgia. She underwent a blood sample, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (

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