Extraosseous Tuberculosis of the Extremities
10.4055/jkoa.1980.15.2.242
- Author:
Key Yong KIM
;
Young Tae KIM
;
Who Shin CHO
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Tuberculosis;
Tenosynovitis;
Bursitis;
Rice Body;
Surgical Removal Chemotherapy
- MeSH:
Bursitis;
Drug Therapy;
Extremities;
Incidence;
Tenosynovitis;
Tuberculosis;
Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular
- From:The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
1980;15(2):242-247
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Extraosseous tuberculosis of the extremities is relatively rare even in the wide spread incidence of bone and joint tuberculosis. And few reports about extraosseous tuberculosis of the extremities have been published in the literatures. Eight cases of the extraosseous tuberculosis of the extremities were experienced at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Medical Center, from 1975 to Sep. 1979. Five out of 8 extraosseous tuberculosis were tenosynovitis and the others were bursitis in location. All cases were surgically excised and combined with antituberculous chemotherapy, and primarily cured.
