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Tuberculous fasciitis and tenosynovitis. An unusual presentation of miliary tuberculosis
A M Kabani1, J D Yao, I H Jadusingh
1Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case of miliary tuberculosis presenting initially as pyogenic fasciitis and tenosynovitis is described. The unusual presenting clinical features suggestive of a noninfectious inflammatory condition resulted in delayed diagnosis. Tuberculous fasciitis and tenosynovitis were diagnosed by the presence of acid-fast bacilli in histopathologic sections and confirmed by the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from cultures of tissue specimens.