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Nontuberculous mycobacterial sternal osteomyelitis in a patient without predisposing condition
E J Kuipers1, H J Hazenberg, B Ploeger
1Department of Internal Medicine, Stichting Deventer Ziekenhuizen, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|April 1, 1991
Abstract:
A woman is reported with a ten-year history of nonspecific chest pain. Bone scintigraphy showed increased local uptake, suggesting isolated sternal osteomyelitis. Radiographic investigations were positive 18 months later. Cultures of needle aspirations of the sternal bone marrow isolated Mycobacterium fortuitum as well as Mycobacterium simiae. Due to its indolent nature, nontuberculous mycobacterial disease is easily missed, especially in non-compromised hosts.