[Non-healing foot wound].
A young man from Sri Lanka developed a suppurative chronic wound on the right foot after a minor trauma. In spite of several surgical interventions a closure of the ulcer did not occur. Only six months later after serious miliary tuberculosis had developed the correct diagnosis was established and tuberculostatic therapy initiated. This manifestation of tuberculosis--rare in recent times--is reviewed. Emphasis is placed on the causal relation between trauma and reactivation of tuberculosis as well as the pathogenesis of secondary miliary tuberculosis.
Kuhn
M
M
Nef
W
W
Gartmann
J
J
Hartmann
G
G
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000209:etiology*; D014391:Tuberculosis, Miliary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis
Nichtheilende Fusswunde.