Chronic Granulomatous Infection of Soft Tissue Complicated by Trauma of a Lower Leg.
10.4055/jkoa.2012.47.4.293
- Author:
Kyungho PARK
1
;
Kwangyoung SO
;
Minwook KIM
;
Yongsoo CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kwangju Christian Hospital, Gwangju, Korea. stemcellchoi@yahoo.co.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
mycobacterium tuberculosis;
nontuberculous mycobacteria;
soft tissue infections;
skin infections
- MeSH:
Child;
Debridement;
Humans;
Immune System;
Korea;
Leg;
Mycobacterium tuberculosis;
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria;
Philippines;
Skin;
Soft Tissue Infections
- From:The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
2012;47(4):293-298
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Chronic granulomatous infection of the skin and soft tissue by nontuberculous mycobacteria in patients with normal immune system is rarely reported. This case was about a child patient, with normal immune system, whose lower leg was lacerated after a slip down in the Philippines and it was previously treated at a hospital in the Philippines. After a couple of surgical debridement of the wound, the cause of the soft tissue infection was found to be a combined infection of nontuberculous mycobacteria and mycobacterium tuberculosis. We present a case that has been rare in Korea, but common overseas.
