Delayed diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a 32-year-old man with knee pain

A 32-year-old Bangladeshi male was admitted at our emergency department for trauma of the left knee. The radiographs showed absence of fracture, and presence of an indeterminate oval lucency in the proximal tibia. Further examinations were suggested, but the patient refused. 6 months later, the pati...

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Autores principales: Agnello, Francesco, Galia, Massimo, Guadagnino, Giuliana, Ricceri, Viola, Midiri, Federico, Colomba, Claudia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150258
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author Agnello, Francesco
Galia, Massimo
Guadagnino, Giuliana
Ricceri, Viola
Midiri, Federico
Colomba, Claudia
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Galia, Massimo
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description A 32-year-old Bangladeshi male was admitted at our emergency department for trauma of the left knee. The radiographs showed absence of fracture, and presence of an indeterminate oval lucency in the proximal tibia. Further examinations were suggested, but the patient refused. 6 months later, the patient re-presented at our emergency department. A CT scan showed progression of musculoskeletal involvement and spread to the liver. This case underlines the importance of considering tuberculosis in the differential diagnosis of indeterminate bone lesions in immigrant patients.
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spelling pubmed-61808692018-10-25 Delayed diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a 32-year-old man with knee pain Agnello, Francesco Galia, Massimo Guadagnino, Giuliana Ricceri, Viola Midiri, Federico Colomba, Claudia BJR Case Rep Case Report A 32-year-old Bangladeshi male was admitted at our emergency department for trauma of the left knee. The radiographs showed absence of fracture, and presence of an indeterminate oval lucency in the proximal tibia. Further examinations were suggested, but the patient refused. 6 months later, the patient re-presented at our emergency department. A CT scan showed progression of musculoskeletal involvement and spread to the liver. This case underlines the importance of considering tuberculosis in the differential diagnosis of indeterminate bone lesions in immigrant patients. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6180869/ /pubmed/30363657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150258 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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