title: Tubercular dactylitis in children.
abstract: Tubercular dactylitis is a rare manifestation of skeletal tuberculosis in the paediatric population. Its clinical diagnosis is often delayed as local symptoms may easily be missed in children and constitutional features such as loss of weight, loss of appetite, night sweats, evening rise of temperature and history of close contact with a patient of tuberculosis may not always be present. Parents seek treatment only when they notice significant swelling or tenderness of fingers or hand in their children. Radiology and fine-needle aspiration cytology may help in establishing an early diagnosis. Astute multidrug antitubercular therapy is curative.
authors.affiliation: aDepartment of Orthopaedics, Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh bDepartment of Orthopaedics, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, India.
authors.forename: Balaji
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Saibaba
authors.forename: Nirmal
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Raj Gopinathan
authors.forename: Siva S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Santhanam
authors.forename: Umesh K
authors.initials: UK
authors.lastname: Meena
mesh_terms: D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis; D011859:Radiography; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents