Tuberculosis of Capitate Bone in A Skeletally Immature Patient: A Case Report

Primary Tuberculosis of wrist joint and carpal bone is rare, and when occurring it usually affects adults. We present a case of isolated tuberculosis of capitate bone; which was confirmed with intra-osseous tissue histopathological examination in a skeletally immature 12-year old boy. There was no s...

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Autor principal: Prakash, J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279083
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1403.005
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description Primary Tuberculosis of wrist joint and carpal bone is rare, and when occurring it usually affects adults. We present a case of isolated tuberculosis of capitate bone; which was confirmed with intra-osseous tissue histopathological examination in a skeletally immature 12-year old boy. There was no signs of reactivation seen at follow-up 18 months after treatment.
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spelling pubmed-40935472014-10-02 Tuberculosis of Capitate Bone in A Skeletally Immature Patient: A Case Report Prakash, J Malays Orthop J Research Article Primary Tuberculosis of wrist joint and carpal bone is rare, and when occurring it usually affects adults. We present a case of isolated tuberculosis of capitate bone; which was confirmed with intra-osseous tissue histopathological examination in a skeletally immature 12-year old boy. There was no signs of reactivation seen at follow-up 18 months after treatment. Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2014-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4093547/ /pubmed/25279083 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1403.005 Text en Copyright © 2014, Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Tuberculosis of Capitate Bone in A Skeletally Immature Patient: A Case Report
title_fullStr Tuberculosis of Capitate Bone in A Skeletally Immature Patient: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis of Capitate Bone in A Skeletally Immature Patient: A Case Report
title_short Tuberculosis of Capitate Bone in A Skeletally Immature Patient: A Case Report
title_sort tuberculosis of capitate bone in a skeletally immature patient: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093547/
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