Radiology in Bone and Articular Tuberculosis

The Radiology of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Isolated Tuberculosis of the Talus Bone

Case: Isolated talus osteomyelitis caused by Koch's bacillus (BK) is extremely rare. In this paper we report an isolated talus bone tuberculosis in a 52 year-old man who presented a 2-month history of swelling, pain and functional disability of his right ankle. Surgical bone curetting and histological examination showed granuloma with central caseating necrosis. Acid fast stain and PCR examin...

Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis: Bone scan appearance [Persian]

Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis in not uncommon in the countries with tuberculosis. The clinical onest is insidious and sometimes nonspecific, resulting in delay or misdiagnosis. Bone scan appearance is presented in some reports, as multiple abnormal accumulations of tracer. This report describes an unusual presentation of multifocal skeletal tuberculosis.

Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Role of Radiology in Diagnosis and Management.

Tuberculosis is a public health problem worldwide, including in the United States-particularly among immunocompromised patients and other high-risk groups. Tuberculosis manifests in active and latent forms. Active disease can occur as primary tuberculosis, developing shortly after infection, or postprimary tuberculosis, developing after a long period of latent infection. Primary tuberculosis oc...

Bone and Joint Tuberculosis in Imam Khomeini Hospital Tehran, 1372-1375

ABSTRACT Tuberculosis is a major health problem in the world, which causes considerable mortality and morbidity. In a prospective - descriptive study, a group of patients with diagnosis of bone and joint tuberculosis on the basis of the clinical symptoms, signs and paraclinical data with positive PPD and negative Wright tests, were examined in Imam Khomeini Hospital (Infectious Disease and Or...

Radiology in the diagnosis and management of bone tumours.

The range of radiological investigations available for the diagnosis and the assessment of tumours of the skeleton has increased rapidly over the last decade. This increasingly sophisticated technology is available at a time when perceptions of the mortality and morbidity of ese tumours have been altering rapidly. Most clinicians see few primary bone tumours in their working lives, and some are...