Tuberculous tenosynovitis.
Tuberculous tenosynovitis is rare and may be overlooked as a cause of chronic tenosynovitis. This report presents a case of a young woman with tuberculosis tenosynovitis of the wrist, and highlights the clinical, imaging, histological, and laboratory features most commonly seen in this disease.
Department of Pathology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Maywood, IL, USA.
Samer
S
Aboudola
Anna
A
Sienko
Roberta B
RB
Carey
Stuart
S
Johnson
D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013717:Tenosynovitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000473:pathology*
D000995:Antitubercular Agents