Isolated tubercular osteomyelitis of acromion: A case report and review of literature.
J Clin Orthop Trauma 2016;
7:55-57. [PMID:
28018073 PMCID:
PMC5167509 DOI:
10.1016/j.jcot.2016.08.009]
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Abstract
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of public health interest, infecting one-third of the world population. Up to 3% of all Tubercular cases have musculoskeletal involvement with less than 1% involving the scapular. To the best of our knowledge, we present the third case of acromion involvement in reported literature. An adolescent female with complains of shoulder pain with no restriction of movements, no local symptoms, no fever, no history of tuberculosis was being treated on analgesics for three months at a primary health centre. With a provisional diagnosis of Chondroblastoma, surgical exploration was done, but pus was drained. It was realized in retrospect that tuberculosis needs to be considered as a differential diagnosis for any undefined bony pain, however uncommon the site of involvement may be, especially in Indian subcontinent.
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