| Literature DB >> 14628100 |
Yong-Koo Park1, Ji Seon Park, Chung-Soo Han.
Abstract
Tuberculosis remains a major international health problem despite advances in radiological diagnosis and antituberculous therapy. Disseminated tuberculous infection affecting a single bone and manifested as multifocal lytic cortical lesions is rare and unusual. We report on a 50-year-old man with multifocal involvement of the femur by tuberculosis and demonstrate positive reaction using tuberculosis-polymerase chain reaction on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded histological specimens.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14628100 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-003-0714-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Skeletal Radiol ISSN: 0364-2348 Impact factor: 2.199