Navicular tuberculosis: A rare localization of bone tuberculosis
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Navicular tuberculosis: A rare localization of bone tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health problem endemic to Morocco. While extrapulmonary TB uncommonly presents in osteoarticular anatomic locations, tarsal or metatarsal osteitis can occur when TB presents in the tarsal bones. Clinical symptoms are often insidious causing a delay in diagnosis that may lead to bone destruction. While diagnosis can be guided by X-ray imaging, bacteriologic a...
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عنوان ژورنال: IDCases
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2214-2509
DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2015.08.002