Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints in Orthopedic

Bones and Joints Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis appears to be increasing throughout the world after years of continuous decline, despite the introduction of effective chemotherapy. This resurgence is related to the increasing number of patients immunocompromised by chemotherapeutic agents used to treat other diseases or AIDS; the appearance of multiple drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, and aging population. Several species...

Chemotherapy of tuberculosis of bones and joints.

The assessment of therapeutic remedies for tuberculosis is notoriously difficult : many remedies in the past have enjoyed popular favour but have been forgotten ; many papers have been written on calcium or tuberculin or gold, but who now refers to them? These thoughts must have been in the minds of the Medical Research Council in 1946 when they undertook to plan trials of streptomycin in pulmo...

[Tuberculosis of the bones and joints].

The incidence of tuberculosis has increased over the last several years. Bones and joints tuberculosis makes 20% of all extrapulmonary locations of tuberculosis. In Poland this form of tuberculosis is underdiagnosed. We present three cases with tuberculosis of bones, joints and lung to remind the basic principles of diagnosis and treatment.

Tuberculosis of the Bones and Joints in Children

tuberculous bone and joints respectively. In the next section tuberculous infection of joints is dealt, with on the same lines, followed by sections on clinical features and diagnosis. Then comes a well illustrated chapter on X-ray appearances, after which treatment is taken up. All the usual methods of treatment are described, but from what follows later in the book, we gather that the author ...

Clinical Pictures of Tuberculosis in Relation to Bones and Joints