Skeletal tuberculosis. Two case reports with a delay in diagnosis.
The presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the olecranon simulated a "warm" bursitis. In another case a stiff knee due to osteitis in childhood was treated with an arthrodesis because of a confusing story of new trauma. Reactivation of previously unrecognized oseoarticular tuberculosis followed. Both patients had negative cultures in ordinary medium at the time of the onset of symptoms.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014457:Ulna
D000995:Antitubercular Agents