title: Tuberculosis of the triceps muscle.
abstract: A tubercular swelling of the triceps muscle in a 25-year-old immunocompetent man is described in this report. He presented with hard, fixed swelling at the lower end of the triceps muscle. Confirmatory diagnosis was established by fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the swelling with subsequent PCR for Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the FNAC specimen. The patient was completely cured with antitubercular therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Manoj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meena
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Ramakant
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dixit
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Jai Kumar
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Samaria
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Sabarigirivasan Harish
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Vijayakandeepan Kumaresan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001132:Arm / Q000382:microbiology*; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D004487:Edema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000382:microbiology*; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents