Sternal tuberculosis in a patient with chronic kidney disease

Sternum is generally regarded as resistant to infections and thus is an infrequent site of osteomyelitis. Involvement of sternum by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rare. Sternal tuberculosis in chronic kidney disease (CKD) was not reported till date. We report a 40-year-old patient with stage IV CKD,...

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Autores principales: Yadla, M., Reddy, S., Sriramnaveen, P., Kishore, C. K., Sridhar, A. V. S. S. N, Lakshmi, A. Y., Vijayalakshmi, B., Phanindra, B., Sivakumar, V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23580808
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.107210
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Sumario:Sternum is generally regarded as resistant to infections and thus is an infrequent site of osteomyelitis. Involvement of sternum by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rare. Sternal tuberculosis in chronic kidney disease (CKD) was not reported till date. We report a 40-year-old patient with stage IV CKD, who presented with sternal and cervical lymphnodal tuberculosis.

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