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Tuberculosis of contralateral costo-transverse joints
S M Levine1, E B Marianacci, S V Kattapuram
1Department of Bone and Joint Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Skeletal Radiology
|February 7, 1998
Abstract:
We present a case of multifocal tuberculosis of contralateral costo-transverse joints. Even in countries where tuberculosis is common, extrapulmonary multifocal infection is uncommon. Furthermore, a bilateral, symmetric distribution is distinctly unusual. The index of suspicion for tuberculosis should increase when the patient is from a country where tuberculosis is endemic or when a history of AIDS is present.