title: [Pathologic phalangeal fracture in bone tuberculosis].
abstract: We amputated the ringfinger of a 75 years old patient under the diagnosis of a pathologic fracture of the proximal phalanx, based on the case-history and the X-ray-picture. Even knowing the X-ray-findings of the lung only the microscopic evidence confirmed the tuberculosis as the cause of the osteolysis.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D005385:Fingers / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Pathologische Phalangen-Fraktur bei Knochentuberkulose.