Sausage digit due to radish bacillus.
We wish to draw attention to a very characteristic but little known syndrome. An elderly woman presented with a 'sausage finger', rheumatological jargon used to describe diffuse swelling of the digit. This proved to be a proliferative tenosynovitis caused by an atypical mycobacterium, Mycobacterium terrae, or the radish bacillus.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers; D006801:Humans; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis; D013717:Tenosynovitis / Q000209:etiology*