The varied clinical presentation of osteoarticular tuberculosis makes the diagnosis an enigma. This report underlines the fact that osteoarticular tuberculosis can present in the most atypical pattern. It also emphasises the need for a high index of clinical suspicion and the low threshold for tissue biopsy for establishing the diagnosis.

Introduction: Osteoarticuar tuberculosis comprises 1-4.3% of all tuberculosis cases and 10-15% of all extra pulmonary tuberculosis cases.The diagnosis of osteoarticular tuberculosis is mainly clinico-radiological and presents a greater diagnostic challenge due to less liberation of bacilli.Drug resistant form of osteoarticular tuberculosis has very rare prevalence and less commonly studied. Thi...

Osteoarticular brucellosis is the most common presentation of human active disease although its prevalence varies widely. The three most common forms of osteoarticular involvement are sacroiliitis, spondylitis, and peripheral arthritis. The molecular mechanisms implicated in bone damage have been recently elucidated. B. abortus induces bone damage through diverse mechanisms in which TNF-α and t...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Pediatric acute osteoarticular infections remain a challenging clinical issue for physicians. This paper provides recent clinical experiences on acute community-acquired osteoarticular infections in children in Taiwan. METHODS Children with acute community-acquired osteoarticular infections admitted to hospital were retrospectively reviewed and the findings compared with re...

A retrospective review was performed of the results of all allograft reconstructions that had been done after the resection of an osteosarcoma or an Ewing sarcoma in a skeletally immature patient between 1982 and 1989 at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. There were twenty-six patients. Six reconstructions were intercalary, sixteen were resection arthrodeses, three followed resection of...

BACKGROUND Skin allograft is the gold standard of wound coverage in patients with extensive burns; however, it is considered as a temporary wound coverage and rejection of the skin allograft is considered inevitable. In our study, skin allograft as a permanent coverage in deep burns is evaluated. METHODS Skin allograft survival was assessed in 38 patients from March 2009 to March 2014, retro...

OBJECTIVE The incidence rate of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection has been increasing globally in recent years. However, reports of osteoarticular NTM infection are relatively rare. We report the characteristic clinical features of patients with osteoarticular NTM infection. PATIENTS AND METHODS We examined 14 patients with osteoarticular NTM infection (mean age, 68 years) were tre...

OBJECTIVE To examine the frequency and clinical manifestations of osteoarticular tuberculosis in non-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients during the past 10 years in a northwestern area of Spain. METHODS The charts of all patients older than 14 years of age, not HIV-infected, and diagnosed as having osteoarticular tuberculosis at the Xeral-Calde Hospital from 1988 through 1997 were rev...

Osteoarticular tuberculosis represents 1.7-2% of all tuberculosis (TB). The localization in the foot is rare and accounts for less than 10% of osteoarticular TB. The following report describes the case of a 7-year-old boy who presented with a gradually increasing inflammatory swelling over the lateral aspect of the right ankle. An X-ray of his right ankle showed an osteolytic image at the calca...