Open AccessTuberculosis of the foot: An osteolytic variety
Author(s) -
Mandeep Singh Dhillon,
Sameer Aggarwal,
Sharad Prabhakar,
Vikas Bachhal
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.93683
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , surgery , calcaneus , lesion , foot (prosody) , osteomyelitis , osteolysis , deformity , pathology , philosophy , linguistics
Foot involvement in osteoarticular tuberculosis is uncommon and isolated bony involvement of foot bones with an osteolytic defect is even more rare; diagnostic and therapeutic delays can occur, worsening the prognosis. We present a retrospective series of osteolytic variety of foot tuberculosis.