Multifocal tuberculosis of the chest wall without pulmonary involvement

Ekingen G., Guvenc B., Kahraman H.

ACTA CHIRURGICA BELGICA, vol.106, no.1, pp.124-126, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 106 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/00015458.2006.11679854
  • Journal Name: ACTA CHIRURGICA BELGICA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.124-126
  • Kocaeli University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Skeletal tuberculosis (TB) is usually seen in association with a primary pulmonary focus. However, it is being increasingly recognized that the former may be encountered without the latter, particularly in children. Sternal lesions have been frequently reported in infants, presumably secondary to Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination. Herein we report a case of rib TB and a cold abscess in a child who had previously had sternal TB; that diagnosis had been missed at the time. Timely treatment of apparently solitary skeletal lesions may reduce the number of multifocal cases of skeletal TB in children.