Chronic slowly progressive monoarthritis tuberculosis of the hip without systemic symptoms mimicking osteoarthritis: a case report

The authors report and discuss the clinical and radiological features of a immunocompetent patient with chronic progressive monoarthritis tuberculosis of the hip without systemic symptoms such as fever, and weight loss presenting as caseating abscess and severe destruction of the hip joint, treated...

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Autores principales: Ramos, Carina Guedes, Alves, Marcelle Duarte, Santos, Rodrigo Pires dos, Falci, Diego, Goldani, Luciano Zubaran
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6457
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Sumario:The authors report and discuss the clinical and radiological features of a immunocompetent patient with chronic progressive monoarthritis tuberculosis of the hip without systemic symptoms such as fever, and weight loss presenting as caseating abscess and severe destruction of the hip joint, treated with resection arthroplasty.

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