Spinal tuberculosis (TB) is a dangerous form of skeletal TB because of its ability to cause bone destruction, deformity, and paraplegia. The emergence of multiple drug-resistant strains (MDR-TB) should be suspected if treatment failure occurs, either medically or surgically, because its global incidence is increasing. Patients with MDR-TB are more difficult to treat, remain infectious for longe...

of other benign neoplasias. Calcified cardiac tuberculomas are infrequent and there is usually a history of tuberculosis,5 which was not the case for our patient. Cardiac tophaceous pseudogout and tumoral calcinosis are 2 rare entities associated with chronic kidney disease. However, tumoral calcinosis commonly appears as a dense calcium extension on the mitral ring and/or the aortic arch, with...

Multiple pseudo-cyst formation is an uncommon manifestation of skeletal tuberculosis. Confusion has been caused by the failure to differentiate between this form of osseous tuberculosis, the solitary foci of diaphysial tuberculous osteitis, tuberculous dactylitis, and the bone lesions of sarcoidosis. This confusion has largely been due to Jungling (1920, 1928) who, believing them to be of tuber...

Folk beliefs associated with death and disease can impact on the bioarcheological record. Unusual postmortem actions by humans and distinctive paleopathological evidence may be clues to these beliefs. This report presents bioarcheological and paleopathological evidence in support of a 19th century New England folk belief in vampires with a particular reference to a colonial period burial. The N...

Tuberculous dactylitis is an unusual form of osteoarticular tuberculosis involving the short tubular bones of hands and feet, which is uncommon beyond six years of age. We report the case of a fifteen-year-old adolescent boy who was diagnosed with tuberculous dactylitis, involving contralateral hand and foot. His diagnosis was delayed due to lack of suspicion of this rare entity. The report als...

Skin localizations in disseminated tuberculosis may present a clinical resistant evolution. An 81-year-old woman, treated by long-term steroids and methotrexate for rheumatoid polyarthritis, developed a disseminated tuberculosis in chest, bones and skin. While pulmonary symptoms quickly improved under conventional tuberculostatic drugs, skin ulcers showed positive cultures for 5 months and heal...

(School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta) The association of the pulmonary and cutaneous tuberculosis was observed by Tomlinson and Dowling (1947) but the subject has not been thoroughly studied. Mitchell-Hegg (1950) in his text book advocates routine X-ray examination of the lungs in every case of cutaneous tuberculosis and remarks that pulmonary tuberculosis is uncommon with lupus. According to...

A series of 17 children presenting at Baragwanath Hospital with histologically proven osteo-articWar tuberculosis is reported. The relatively early stage in the disease process has led to a specific radiological appearance. However, confirmation ofdiagnosis at biopsy is made more difficult as the area actually infected by the tubercle bacillus may be extremely limited. Care in biopsy technique ...