Tubercular dactylitis and multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis--two rare cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
Involvement of small bones of hand and feet leading to tuberculous dactylitis involvement is a rare presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Even rarer is the association of tuberculous dactylitis with multifocal skeletal involvement, even in countries like ours, where tuberculosis is endemic. The authors report two cases, one of tuberculous dactylitis in a 55-year-old male and another of multifocal skeletal tuberculosis in a 4-year-old male. Both the patients were effectively treated with antitubercular drugs.
Pathology Department, JN Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. nazima_haider@yahoo.com
Nazima
N
Haider
Mehar
M
Aziz
Abdul Qayyum
AQ
Khan
Mohammed
M
Zulfiqar
D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004551:Elbow Joint; D050278:Finger Phalanges; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008682:Metatarsal Bones; D008875:Middle Aged; D013639:Tarsal Bones; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*
D000995:Antitubercular Agents