Yazıcı Ayten, Kayan Gökçen, Yaylacı Selçuk, Demir Mustafa Volkan, Karakeçe Engin, Tamer Ali, Karabay Oğuz
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Kocaeli University School of Medicine, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Clinic of Infection Diseases, Sakarya Training and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey.
Eur J Rheumatol. 2016 Sep;3(3):142-143. doi: 10.5152/eurjrheum.2015.0062. Epub 2016 Feb 1.
Tuberculous arthritis of the elbow joint is rare. A 57-year-old male patient presented with swelling, pain, and redness of the elbow. The symptoms first appeared one month ago; he was given antibiotic treatment after the diagnosis of septic arthritis at another center. The patient who did not improve with treatment was diagnosed with tuberculous arthritis according to the culture and was started on antituberculosis treatment. Tuberculous arthritis usually presents with chronic arthritis. However, it can also present in patients with septic arthritis.
肘关节结核性关节炎较为罕见。一名57岁男性患者出现肘部肿胀、疼痛和发红症状。这些症状于1个月前首次出现;在另一家中心被诊断为化脓性关节炎后,他接受了抗生素治疗。经治疗未见好转的该患者根据培养结果被诊断为结核性关节炎,并开始接受抗结核治疗。结核性关节炎通常表现为慢性关节炎。然而,它也可能出现在化脓性关节炎患者中。