This is a rare case of tuberculosis (TB) complicated with pseudogout of the wrist joint in a non-immunocompromised 84-year-old female with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis. She was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis of the wrist based on a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) study and synovial fluid aspiration in which the cytology was positive for acid-fast bacilli. Calcium pyrophosphat...

Tuberculosis (TB), a chronic bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis , commonly affects the lung but can also affect other parts of body (extrapulmonary tuberculosis, EPT). A rapid diagnosis is essential to initiate specific and effective treatment. Although mycobacterial culture remains gold standard for EPT diagnosis, molecular tools are attracting increasing interest. GeneXper...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic and transmissible infection whose etiologic agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis, also known as Koch's bacillus (BK). The disease usually damages the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis), but it can affect other organs in body, such kidneys, meninges, bones (extrapulmonary tuberculosis). A retrospective descriptive observational study was carried out, addressing epidemiolog...

PURPOSE To evaluate the performance of 65 kDa antigen based PCR assay in clinical samples obtained from pulmonary and extrapulmonary cases of tuberculosis. METHODS One hundred and fifty six samples were processed for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by ZN smear examination, LJ medium culture, BACTEC radiometric culture and PCR tests. RESULTS A significant difference was seen in the s...

Despite increasing detection rates of various forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB), thyroid involvement with tubercle bacilli is rarely encountered and its imaging features have been reported in less than a handful of cases. Herein, we present the clinical, pathologic and imaging (ultrasound and CT scan) features of TB involvement of the thyroid gland in a 65-year-old woman who presented w...