Unusually prolonged course of tuberculous dactylitis with osteitis.
We report a case of tuberculous dactylitis that was unusual in two regards: the bone was infected, and the course was prolonged and atypical, with a spontaneous clinical remission followed by a recurrence that led to the diagnosis.
Vanmarsenille
Jean-Marie
JM
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Brussels, Belgium. jean-marie.vanmarsenille@wanadoo.be
de Berg
Bruno
B
Houssiau
Frédéric A
FA
de Selys
Jean
J
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008663:Metacarpus / Q000382:microbiology*; D010000:Osteitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000150:complications*