title: Sternal tuberculosis in a patient with chronic kidney disease.
abstract: Sternum is generally regarded as resistant to infections and thus is an infrequent site of osteomyelitis. Involvement of sternum by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rare. Sternal tuberculosis in chronic kidney disease (CKD) was not reported till date. We report a 40-year-old patient with stage IV CKD, who presented with sternal and cervical lymphnodal tuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Nephrology, Radiology, and Pathology, Srivenkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yadla
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sriramnaveen
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Kishore
authors.forename: A V S S N
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Sridhar
authors.forename: A Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Lakshmi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vijayalakshmi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Phanindra
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sivakumar
keywords: Chronic kidney disease; sternum; tuberculosis