Meena Manoj, Dixit Ramakant, Samaria Jai Kumar, Vijayakandeepan Kumaresan Sabarigirivasan Harish
Department of Respiratory Medicine, JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Jan 6;2015:bcr2014207032. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2014-207032.
A tubercular swelling of the triceps muscle in a 25-year-old immunocompetent man is described in this report. He presented with hard, fixed swelling at the lower end of the triceps muscle. Confirmatory diagnosis was established by fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the swelling with subsequent PCR for Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the FNAC specimen. The patient was completely cured with antitubercular therapy.
本报告描述了一名25岁免疫功能正常男性的肱三头肌结核性肿胀。他的肱三头肌下端出现坚硬、固定的肿胀。通过对肿胀部位进行细针穿刺抽吸细胞学检查（FNAC），并对FNAC标本进行后续结核分枝杆菌聚合酶链反应（PCR），确立了确诊诊断。该患者通过抗结核治疗完全治愈。
