Tuberculosis of sternum: three cases with different presentations.
Sternum is resistant to infections and thus infrequent site of osteomyelitis. Involvement of sternum by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rare. We report case of 37-year-old male with isolated tuberculosis of the sternum, a 14-year-old girl with tuberculosis of the sternum and Potts spine and a 55-year-old male with tubercular sinus of the sternum, three different presentations of the same disease.
Khaira
Ambar
A
Department of Nephrology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029.
Khaira
Deepa Dash
DD
Gupta
Ankur
A
Bhowmik
Deepankar
D
Kalra
O P
OP
Tiwari
Suresh Chandra
SC
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013249:Sternum; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000175:diagnosis*