title: [Tuberculosis of the hand].
abstract: Since 1985 there has been an increase in the incidence of skeletal tuberculosis in Denmark. This increase is attributed to a high incidence of tuberculosis among HIV-positive patients, elderly people and the increasing number of immigrants from areas with endemic tuberculosis. We present a case of hand tuberculosis in a young Somali male adult, where the tubercle bacilli find their way to the third metacarpal bone of the left hand, without a history of trauma or previous pulmonary tuberculosis. There was a delay in the treatment due to misdiagnosis of just three weeks. The abscess totally vanished two months after start of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Ortopaedkirurgisk afdeling Roskilde Amtssygehuset Køge.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kali
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lund
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008663:Metacarpus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology*; D011859:Radiography; D012998:Somalia / Q000208:ethnology; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents