title: [Non-healing foot wound].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuhn
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nef
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gartmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hartmann
mesh_terms: 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
vernacular_title: Nichtheilende Fusswunde.