Patients: 146 patients ≥ 45 years of age (mean age 62 y, 61% women) with symptomatic knee OA (American College of Rheumatology criteria: long-term knee pain and ≥ 1 osteophyte on knee radiograph [equivalent to Kellgren-Lawrence grade 2]), mild or worse weight-bearing pain (Western Ontario and McMaster Universities [WOMAC] pain subscale), and pain or discomfort referable to the knee joint. Exclu...

We retrospectively evaluated eight patients who underwent arthrodesis of the knee using cannulated screws. There were six women and two men, with a mean age of 53 years. The indications for arthrodesis were failed total knee arthroplasty, septic arthritis, tuberculosis, and recurrent persistent infection. Solid union was achieved in all patients at a mean of 6.1 months. One patient required aut...

  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...

UNLABELLED Tuberculosis still remains a leading infection, causing death and disability worldwide. We report a patient with isolated tuberculosis of the talus bone. A 14 year old boy reported with an eight-month history of swelling and pain in his left ankle joint. Routine investigations indicated positive aetiology of tuberculous infection . Surgical curettage of the talus and, debridement wer...