Yadav Sankalp, Rawal Gautam, Jeyaraman Madhan
Department of Medicine, Shri Madan Lal Khurana Chest Clinic, Moti Nagar, New Delhi, IND.
Department of Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care, Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, IND.
Cureus. 2023 Aug 30;15(8):e44400. doi: 10.7759/cureus.44400. eCollection 2023 Aug.
is a significant issue in endemic countries. The most common manifestation of skeletal tuberculosis in children is spondylitis, also known as Pott disease, but it may rarely involve small bones. Usually, a pulmonary focus is present from where the bacteria reach the extremities, but an isolated tuberculous involvement of the left index finger in a child without any pulmonary seeding is rare. It is a challenging diagnosis due to a lack of awareness among primary care physicians, the paucibacillary nature of the disease, and overlapping clinical features with other musculoskeletal disorders. A 13-year-old girl was brought in with complaints of pain, swelling, and discharging sinuses from her left index finger. A diagnosis was achieved after a histopathological correlation of clinical and radiological findings. She was started on anti-tubercular treatment for 12 months.
在流行国家这是一个重要问题。儿童骨骼结核最常见的表现是脊柱炎,也称为波特病,但它很少累及小骨头。通常存在肺部病灶,细菌由此到达四肢,但在没有任何肺部播散的儿童中,孤立的左食指结核感染很少见。由于基层医疗医生认识不足、疾病菌量少的性质以及与其他肌肉骨骼疾病重叠的临床特征,这是一个具有挑战性的诊断。一名13岁女孩因左食指疼痛、肿胀和流脓性窦道前来就诊。通过临床和放射学检查结果的组织病理学关联做出了诊断。她开始接受为期12个月的抗结核治疗。