title: Mycobacterium kanasii flexor tenosynovitis of the finger.
abstract: We report an extreme case of Mycobacterium kanasii flexor tenosynovitis with flexor tendon rupture in a healthy 65-year-old left-hand dominant Caucasian housewife. This case highlights the diagnostic conundrum of atypical mycobacteria infections due to their insidious presentation, the need for a high index of suspicion to prevent worsening or delaying the diagnosis from inappropriate steroid use and that these infections can occur in otherwise healthy individuals.
authors.affiliation: St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Court Road, CM1 7ET, Chelmsford, Essex, UK.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Teare
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Iwuagwu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers; D006801:Humans; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology*; D019909:Mycobacterium kansasii / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013717:Tenosynovitis / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents