The Effectiveness of Vacuum-Assisted Closure Device in Managing Intramuscular Tuberculosis

Sharifah A Othman¹, Tarek M ElSharkawy, Doaa Alfaifi+1

• ¹At the King Fahad Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, College of Medicine, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Sharifah A. Othman, MBBS, is Surgery Resident, Thoracic Surgery Division; Tarek M. ElSharkawy, MD, is Pathology Consultant, Pathology Department; Doaa Alfaifi, MD, is Pathology Resident, Pathology Department; and Yasser Aljehani, MD, is Thoracic Surgery Consultant, Thoracic Surgery Division. Acknowledgment: The authors thank Dr Wasan Alalwan for collecting the patient's data. The authors have disclosed no financial relationships related to this article. Submitted May 28, 2020; accepted in revised form July 7, 2020.