Avascular necrosis of humeral head in an elderly patient with tuberculosis: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Osteonecrosis (avascular necrosis) is known to be caused by high-dose corticosteroid therapy, alcoholism and rarely by infections. However, a tubercular etiology of this condition is very rare. A review of the literature yielded only a few cases of polyarticular tuberculosis with osteo...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Renu, Gupta, Ruchika, Singh, Sompal, Gupta, Kusum, Kudesia, Madhur
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2612682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19055793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-361

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2612682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19055793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-361

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