Birnbaum M A, Walter N E
Orthopaedic Surgery, McLaren General Hospital, Flint, Michigan.
Orthop Rev. 1987 Sep;16(9):637-41.
Joint infection secondary to sporotrichosis is quite rare. Recently there have been two reports of sporotrichosis arthritis in the literature. An early report of synovitis of the knee secondary to sporotrichosis without cutaneous or multifocal involvement appeared in 1957. Sporotrichosis is a fungal disease that commonly causes bone and joint infection in its extracutaneous form. This report discusses sporotrichosis of the knee joint in a 28-year-old patient.
