Musculosceletal tuberculosis with involvement of tendon sheaths and formation of synovial cyst.
Due to an increasing amount of patients on immunosuppressive treatment, the number of tuberculosis (TB) of atypical course and extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases increase. Locomotor system is a place of every fifth case of extrapulmonary TB. Because of lack of characteristic symptoms, as well as rare co-occurrence of active lung lesions in radiological imaging, proper diagnosis is hard to establish. We present a case of patient on immunosuppressive therapy due to myositis, in whom we diagnosed musculoskeletal tuberculosis in form of involvement of tendon sheath and formation of synovial cyst.
Department of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. michal.zielinski1@interia.pl.
Michał
M
Zieliński
Henryka
H
Mazur-Zielińska
Jerzy
J
Kozielski
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D007249:Inflammation / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009220:Myositis / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D018461:Soft Tissue Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology; D013581:Synovial Cyst / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D013710:Tendons / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology
D005938:Glucocorticoids
extrapulmonary tuberculosis; ganglion cyst; tendon sheath inflammation