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Osteoarticular tuberculosis
1Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka 020--8505 Japan.
Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology
|August 14, 2001
Abstract:
The radiological features of osteoarticular tuberculosis are quite variable. The rareness of AIDS-associated tuberculosis and relatively mild course and imaging features may be the common feature of osteoarticular tuberculosis in Japan. Imaging features are generally similar to other low-grade infections, and liberal (often incomplete) use of antibiotics for the treatment of pyogenic infection may also make the differential diagnosis difficult on many occasions.