title: [Treatment of tuberculosis of the wrist. 89 long-term course studies and presentation of the current therapeutic concept].
abstract: The decrease in the incidence of tuberculosis may today readily result in a lack of attention being paid to the extrapulmonary forms of this disease in the differential diagnosis of bone changes. Today massive joint destruction can be prevented with the aid of anti-tuberculous chemotherapy, the early establishment of the diagnosis (for example arthrotomy) and surgical intervention (synovectomy or excision of focus, osteosynthesis). On the basis of our patients treated between 1947 and 1982 we describe the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures followed over the last decades. The results are discussed. Our present therapeutic concept is explained.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001174:Arthrodesis; D001178:Arthroplasty; D002370:Casts, Surgical; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007103:Immobilization; D007223:Infant; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D013997:Time Factors; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents
vernacular_title: Die Behandlung der Handgelenkstuberkulose. 89 Langzeit-Verlaufsbeobachtungen und Vorstellung des heutigen Therapiekonzepts.