Anterior chest wall musculoskeletal tuberculosis
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Childhood tuberculosis presenting as an anterior chest wall abscess.
Chest wall abscess is a rare manifestation of childhood tuberculosis. We report a case of a tuberculous chest wall abscess in a 4-year-old healthy girl who had received Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination at birth. She developed a localized anterior chest wall mass, which was initially mistaken for enchondroma on the chest radiograph. Pathologic examination of the biopsy specimen reveale...
متن کاملTuberculosis Abscess of the Chest Wall
A 42-year-old male presented in June of 2011 with nocturnal fevers, night sweats, an 8-kg weight loss, and a cutaneous right chest wall mass. In March of 2013, a computed tomographic scan of the thorax showed a 54 × 18 × 26-mm right lower lobe mass with peripheral calcifications, and in May of 2013, he was admitted for a segmental lobectomy, in which histologic examination of the pulmonary tiss...
متن کامل[Surgical treatment of chest wall tuberculosis].
Of 5000 patients with skeleton tuberculosis, 85 also had chest tuberculosis (= 1.7%). Chest tuberculosis in most cases begins with local pleural tuberculosis originating from a former moist pleurisy. The 5th rib is preferably involved, occasionally several ribs simultaneously. The gradual development of the abscess of the thoracic wall is mostly not recognized. Abscess incision only does not le...
متن کاملIsolated Sternal Tuberculosis Presenting as a Chest Wall Abscess: A Case Report
In India, pulmonary tuberculosis accounts for 85% of cases and extrapulmonary tuberculosis accounts for 15% of cases with bone and joint involvement is seen in 1 to 3% of cases. Primary tuberculous osteomyelitis of the sternum is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. A 51-year-old male presented with 10 years history of swelling over the anterior chest wall and pain for past 6 months. Fin...
متن کاملEndobronchial Tuberculosis and Chest Radiography
Endobronchial tuberculosis and chest radiography I read, with interest, the article entitled “Clinical and Para-clinical Presentations of Endobronchial Tuberculosis” by Ahmadi Hoseini H. S. et al. (1) published in this journal. I would like to focus on some details about the chest X-ray of patients as elaborated by the authors in the results section. Accordingly, the findings of chest radiograp...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Investigations
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1309-6621
DOI: 10.5799/ahinjs.01.2010.02.0026