Lazrek Omar, Bassir Rida Allah, Sabri El Mehdi, Boufettal Moncef, Lamrani Moulay Omar, Kharmaz Mohammed, Mahfoud Mustapha, Bardouni Ahmed, Berrada Mohamed Salah
Department of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery Hospital IBN SINA, Rabat, Morocco.
Department of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery Hospital IBN SINA, Laboratory of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine Rabat, University Med V Rabat, Morocco.
Int J Mycobacteriol. 2018 Jul-Sep;7(3):292-294. doi: 10.4103/ijmy.ijmy_81_18.
Diaphyseal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare case of the skeletal TB. The following report documents the case of a 52-year-old Moroccan woman with a swelling over the right forearm followed by pulmonary TB under treatment for 3 months. The radiographs of the forearm show a lytic image located at the radius mid-diaphysis. The histopathology confirmed the diagnosis. The patient received surgical drainage with trepanation of the bone. The antibacillary chemotherapy was administered for 6 months. It is, therefore, indispensable to bear in mind the possibility of such atypical presentations of TB when making a rapid and pertinent diagnosis and prescribing the appropriate treatment.
