Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis presenting as multiple bone cysts

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1038-1039

  Tiwari, Akshay ^a,b   Sud, Alok ^a   Mehta, Sameer ^a   Kanojia, R K ^a   Kapoor, Sudhir K ^a  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANKLE PAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE BIOPSY; BONE CYST; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS;

EID: 39749157723     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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