Tuberculosis is an ancient disease. Skeletal system involvement is seen in 1%-10% tuberculosis patients. Vertebral tuberculosis is the most common form of bone involvement and amounts for 50% cases of skeletal tuberculosis. About 5% cases of Pott’s disease develop psoas abscess. Psoas abscess secondary to Pott’s spine is rare entity. Here we are reporting a case of psoas abscess secondary to Po...

Tuberculosis osteomyelitis of foot bones is uncommon and may evade the diagnosis for long time because of atypical presentation, paucibacillary nature and relatively normal picture on laboratory investigations. As tuberculosis of bone mimic like chronic osteomyelitis, clinical picture with confection by other organism lead to misdiagnosis. A case of tubercular osteomyelitis of talus reported he...

‘riiis study of immobilisation osteoporosis was undertaken when it was realised tluat the important observations of Gill (1944, 1947) upon epiphysial disruption and premature fusion at the knee were only a part of a much larger problem. The disturbance of bone growth associated with epiphysial fusion gave Gill’s paper its immediate importance. However, prololuged recumbency also produces widesp...

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.