TB or Not TB? A Questionable Case of Septic Arthritis

Xiaoming Jia^1, and Niraj Mehta¹

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

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Xiaoming Jia and Niraj Mehta. TB or Not TB? A Questionable Case of Septic Arthritis. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2016; 4(8):263-264. doi: 10.12691/AJMCR-4-8-4

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is best known as a pulmonary disease but can infect any organ system. Presentation of extrapulmonary TB is often non-specific and slow in onset, though morbidity is often significant. We report a case of osteoarticular and genitourinary tuberculosis in a patient who travelled from an endemic region.

Keywords

extrapulmonary tuberculosis, osteoarticular, genitourinary, cold abscess

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