‘Sausage finger’ with ‘Rice bodies’
Although both pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are commonly encountered in developing countries, tenosynovitis is an uncommon presentation of musculoskeletal TB. TB mimics a lot of other conditions and causes diagnostic dilemma in day-to-day practice. We present the case of a 30-year-o...
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| description | Although both pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are commonly encountered in developing countries, tenosynovitis is an uncommon presentation of musculoskeletal TB. TB mimics a lot of other conditions and causes diagnostic dilemma in day-to-day practice. We present the case of a 30-year-old male who presented with the complaints of swelling of right index finger which was initially suspected to be giant cell tumour of the flexor tendon sheath but on histological examination turned out to be tuberculous tenosynovitis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-90ded9e9d2b3488c8882cec29e9fa27d2022-12-22T00:02:31ZengThieme Medical Publishers, Inc.Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery0970-03581998-376X2018-01-01510109309710.4103/ijps.IJPS_202_16‘Sausage finger’ with ‘Rice bodies’Guru Prasad Reddy0Divya Narain Upadhyaya1Riddhi Jaiswal2Madhu Mati Goel3Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Pathology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Pathology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaAlthough both pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are commonly encountered in developing countries, tenosynovitis is an uncommon presentation of musculoskeletal TB. TB mimics a lot of other conditions and causes diagnostic dilemma in day-to-day practice. We present the case of a 30-year-old male who presented with the complaints of swelling of right index finger which was initially suspected to be giant cell tumour of the flexor tendon sheath but on histological examination turned out to be tuberculous tenosynovitis.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/ijps.IJPS_202_16flexortendontenosynovitistuberculosis osteoarticular |
| spellingShingle | Guru Prasad Reddy Divya Narain Upadhyaya Riddhi Jaiswal Madhu Mati Goel ‘Sausage finger’ with ‘Rice bodies’ Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery flexor tendon tenosynovitis tuberculosis osteoarticular |
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| topic | flexor tendon tenosynovitis tuberculosis osteoarticular |
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