A case of multiple bone and joint tuberculosis which had been misdiagnosed as the rheumatoid arthritis and treated with prednisolone for eleven months

Kekkaku

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 361-366

  Tsuduki, Etsu ^a   Kawada, Hiroshi ^a   Takeda, Yuichiro ^a   Toyoda, Emiko ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Kudo, Koichiro ^a   Osuka, Koji ^a   Kuroki, Hirofumi ^a   Morita, Toyohiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone and joint tuberculosis; Corticosteroid; Polyarthralgia; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 0036252125     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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1. Tuberculosis of the foot
2. Tuberculosis from head to toe
3. Tuberculosis of the wrist
4. Infections of the musculoskeletal system by M. tuberculosis