Tuberculosis of the patella masquerading as prepatellar bursitis

Tuberculosis of bone is an uncommon entity in the Western world. We present a case of tuberculosis of the patella mimicking prepatellar bursitis in an otherwise fit and well woman of Bangladeshi origin. We believe tuberculosis of bone should form a differential diagnosis of the swollen knee in high...

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Autores principales: MacLean, S, Kulkarni, S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Surgeons 2013
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Online Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23317718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588413X13511609955490
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description Tuberculosis of bone is an uncommon entity in the Western world. We present a case of tuberculosis of the patella mimicking prepatellar bursitis in an otherwise fit and well woman of Bangladeshi origin. We believe tuberculosis of bone should form a differential diagnosis of the swollen knee in high risk patients.
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spelling pubmed-39646742014-07-17 Tuberculosis of the patella masquerading as prepatellar bursitis MacLean, S Kulkarni, S Ann R Coll Surg Engl Online Case Report Tuberculosis of bone is an uncommon entity in the Western world. We present a case of tuberculosis of the patella mimicking prepatellar bursitis in an otherwise fit and well woman of Bangladeshi origin. We believe tuberculosis of bone should form a differential diagnosis of the swollen knee in high risk patients. Royal College of Surgeons 2013-01 2013-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3964674/ /pubmed/23317718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588413X13511609955490 Text en Copyright © 2013 Royal College of Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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