Wrist swelling - Is it tuberculosis?
case_report · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 29564280.
- Also identified by DOI 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_200_17 and PMC identifier 5848415.
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Abstract
The hand and wrist are rare sites for tuberculosis (TB) and account for < 1% of all skeletal TB. Though rare, TB of the wrist is a cause of major morbidity. A common feature in the available reports on wrist TB is a delay in diagnosis causing residual stiffness and pain after treatment. Although TB of the wrist has a varied presentation, the majority of lesions respond to conservative treatment. We report a 12-year-old girl who presented with wrist swelling, having intercarpal, carpometacarpal, and radiocarpal joint involvement which turned out to be tuberculous and it healed with residual deformity.