Skeletal tuberculosis. Two case reports with a delay in diagnosis

Gottlieb, J.; Noer, H.H.

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica 55(3): 505-508

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0001-6462
PMID: 2603695
Document Number: 330697
The presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the olecranon simulated a "warm" bursitis. In another case a stiff knee due to osteitis in childhood was treated with an arthrodesis because of a confusing story of new trauma. Reactivation of previously unrecognized oseoarticular tuberculosis followed. Both patients had negative cultures in ordinary medium at the time of the onset of symptoms.

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