Tuberculous Disease of Bone

Tuberculous Frontal Bone Osteomyelitis

A 39 years old man presented with one month history of headache, nausea and vomiting, associated with night sweats without fever or impaired general condition. His past medical history was unremarkable. On admission, the patient was a febrile. A physical examination demonstrated a right frontal bulge which was painful, associated to fluctuation without inflammatory reaction around. A computed t...

Tuberculous Disease of Joints.

Serological tests in the differentiation of staphylococcal and tuberculous bone disease.

The haemagglutination test for antileucocidin is frequently positive in cases of bone tuberculosis in the absence of obvious staphylococcal infection. This test is therefore of little practical use in the differentiation of staphylococcal and tuberculous bone disease, and its use has been discontinued at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. The antigamma haemolysin test in bone tuberculosis...

Myelopathy in Tuberculous Spine Disease

Background The diagnosis of tuberculous spine disease is quite difficult to be established based on clinical data only, moreover if there is no clinical sign of pulmonary TB or gibbus on the spine. Patients with this disease often show skinny appearance and complaining of cold sweat and chronic cough. Therefore, patients with tuberculous spine disease usually come with radiculopathy and/or myel...

Poncet's disease or tuberculous rheumatism.

Our patient had painful oral ulcers with panuveitis, genital ulcers and a positive pathergy reaction fullfilling the diagnostic criteria. It was complicated by a right atrial thrombus and Budd Chiari syndrome, which is the thrombosis of hepatic veins where Behcet's disease is a rare cause among many. It is well established that Behcet's disease predisposes to venous and arterial thrombosis and ...