Multifocal tubercular osteitis in a female patient infected with the human immunodeficiency virus

Gros, T.; Soriano, V.; Gabarre, E.; Tor, J.; Sabriá, M.

Revista Clinica Espanola 191(1): 35-37

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0014-2565
PMID: 1631360
Document Number: 395673
We discuss the case of a 22-year-old female, carrying of antibodies to against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), who developed several tumors on different bone localizations, which corresponded to plurifocal bone tuberculosis. We reviewed multifocal bone tuberculosis reports in the literature. The exceptionally of this case in underlined and the relationship between this atypical clinical presentation and immunodeficiency in discussed.

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