[Tuberculous rice body synovitis of the shoulder joint].
The clinical presentation of synovitis with rice bodies is found in a few systemic diseases as accompanying manifestations within joints or joint-associated bursa. A 79-year old patient was examined, who had complained of pain and swelling in the left shoulder for a long time. Sonography identified multiple spindle-shaped joint bodies within the joint effusion. MRI showed a large amount of so-called rice bodies with joint effusion in the shoulder and a massive destruction of the rotator cuff of the left shoulder. The histological examination showed a tuberculosis-specific inflammatory response with giant cells and epithelioid granulomas and molecular biological detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Within a few months after surgical removal of the rice bodies from the joint space and the bursa a relapse occurred with repeated synovial effusion followed by a renewed surgical removal of the joint bodies. We describe the rare case of a patient with unilateral musculoskeletal manifestation of tuberculosis presented as synovitis of the left shoulder and the adjacent bursa with rice bodies and accelerated growth trend without coexisting active tuberculosis or tuberculosis in the previous history. Furthermore, a brief summary of the literature is given.
Königshausen
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BG-Klinikum Bergmannsheil GmbH, Universitätsklinikum der Ruhr-Universität, Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, 44789, Bochum, Deutschland. m.koenigshausen@web.de
Seybold
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Heyer
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Muhr
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Gekle
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012785:Shoulder Joint / Q000473:pathology*; D013585:Synovitis / Q000473:pathology*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*
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