Mycetoma is a type of a slowly progressive chronic subcutaneous infection caused by actinomycetes or true fungi. A local trauma like cut or splinter can cause the infection leading to a granulomatous reaction. Infection tracks through skin, facial planes and can sometimes involve the underlying bone. Most commonly the foot is involved but also hands, back or shoulders can be involved.A 43 year ...

Tuberculous osteomyelitis involving primarily the diaphysis without articular involvement is very rare. Pain and swelling are the common presenting symptoms. The nonspecific nature of the symptoms leads to a delay in the diagnosis. Radiographs may mimic pyogenic osteomyelitis, Brodie's abscess, tumours or granulomatous lesions. Curettage of the lesion and the histopathological examination of th...

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) affects 8 million new people every year, with developing countries under its strong clout. Although tuberculosis can affect any part of the body involving both soft and hard tissues; such an occurrence in maxillofacial bones form tuberculous osteomyelitis is relatively rare. Due to rarity lesion lack sufficient documentation, incidence be expected more than what ...

  Skeletal tuberculosis is an unusual disease involving bone and joints and it may have different manifestations. This report introduces a 25-year-old woman suffering from chronic knee pain without any response to conservative treatments for one year. X-ray was normal but CT-scan and MRI indicated a small lesion in medial condyle of the femur. The patient underwent percutaneous CT-guided biopsy...

Tuberculous osteomyelitis is a specific infection caused by the acid-fast bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Involvement of the oral region is rare, especially in children. Almost all cases arise secondary to known pulmonary disease and involve the oral tissues via three routes: direct inoculation; extension from other infected sites; or hematogenous seeding. The clinical, radiologic, histolo...

Sternal tuberculosis secondary to tuberculous mastitis is uncommon. The invasion of the sternum following a primary focus in the breast has not been reported. This may be due to the resistance offered by pectoral fascia and periosteum to the spread of infection into the bone. We present a case of tubercular sternal osteomtyelitis following tubercular mastitis in a 40-year old female. A brief ca...

Mycobacterium longobardum is a slow-growing, nontuberculous mycobacterium that was first characterized from the M. terrae complex in 2012. We report a case of M. longobardum induced chronic osteomyelitis. A 71-yr-old man presented with inflammation in the left elbow and he underwent a surgery under the suspicion of tuberculous osteomyelitis. The pathologic tissue culture grew M. longobardum whi...

Vertebral infections are a group of diseases such as spondylitis, discitis, vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess due to various microorganisms. Vertebral osteomyelitis comprises 2-7% of all pyogenic osteomyelitis and manifests a serious disease with an incidence rate varying between 1/100 000 to 1/250 000. The most common pathogens in vertebral osteomyelitis are S. aureus and coagulase ...