Metastatic Tuberculous Abscesses

Metastatic tuberculous abscesses.

In the past three years we have studied several children suffering from chronic tuberculous ulceration of the skin. These ulcers, usually multiple, were formed by the rupture through the skin of a tuberculous abscess which began beneath it. The ulcer slowly healed leaving a depressed scar. There are brief references to this type of ulceration in both paediatric and dermatological textbooks, but...

Multiple chest wall tuberculous abscesses.

Tuberculosis (TB) usually involves the lungs and hilar lymph nodes. Musculoskeletal TB occurs in 1%-3% of patients with TB, while chest wall TB constitutes 1%-5% of all cases of musculoskeletal TB. The present case reports a twenty six year old immunocompetent patient with multiple chest wall tuberculous abscesses along with multiple ribs destruction, in absence of active pulmonary TB or intrat...

isolated tuberculous liver abscesses in down syndrome

abstract isolated tuberculosis (tb) liver abscesses have rarely been documented in the literature.this report describes the challenging diagnosis of primary liver tb. we report on the case of a 10-year-old girl with down syndrome, who had symptoms of fever and chills, anorexia and intermittent vomiting. the ultrasound and computed tomography (ct)revealed multiple abscess-like lesions in the liv...

Fatal tuberculous brain abscesses in an immunocompetent woman

The identification of the cause of acute encephalitis is difficult in spite of many developed diagnosis strategies. The cause is unknown in nearly 30 to 40 % of cases. Tuberculosis is endemic in Tunisia. Tuberculous encephalitis is rare in immunocompetent adults. We report in this work a rare case report of tuberculous encephalitis in an immunocompetent woman. She was 38 years old and had no me...

Treatment of tuberculous sinuses and abscesses of osteoarticular origin.