Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Family Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Malden, Massachusetts, USA.
BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Mar 3;15(3):e245324. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-245324.
This report discusses the case of a male refugee from East Africa who presented with persistent right shoulder pain and was found to have a periscapular mass, whose diagnostic and therapeutic delay was due not only to fragmentation of care, but also a lack of awareness of musculoskeletal manifestations of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. This case underscores the importance of including tuberculosis in the differential diagnosis for a variety of symptoms in patients with risk factors, even if they report previous negative screening.
本报告讨论了一位来自东非的男性难民病例,他表现出持续的右肩部疼痛,并被发现存在肩胛间肿块,其诊断和治疗的延误不仅是由于医疗服务的碎片化,还由于对肺外结核的肌肉骨骼表现缺乏认识。这个病例强调了在具有风险因素的患者出现各种症状时,即使他们报告之前的筛查结果为阴性,也应将结核病纳入鉴别诊断的重要性。