PURPOSE Evaluate the efficacy of using the SIGN nail for instrumented knee fusion. METHODS Six consecutive patients (seven knees, three males) with an average age of 30.5 years (range, 18-50 years) underwent a knee arthrodesis with SIGN nail (mean follow-up 10.7 months; range, 8-14 months). Diagnoses included tuberculosis (two knees), congenital knee dislocation in two knees (one patient), ba...

Tuberculosis (TB) is currently in resurgence due to immigration from endemic areas. Skeletal TB frequently mimics more common etiologies and can be difficult to diagnose. A case of TB knee arthritis in a young woman with painful and swelling knee is reported here. Arthrotomy was performed and inflamed synovial tissue was found, with multiple rice bodies in the eroded lateral femoral condyle. Th...

Bones and joints, among other extrapulmonary organs, are most often affected by tuberculosis. The clinical picture is «hidden», the diagnosis of disease delayed for a long time with all negative consequences.
 Objective — to study trend in incidence tuberculosis bone joint localization Sumy region residents recent years draw attention general practitioners urgent problem today.
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We reviewed 33 children with tuberculosis of the knee treated during the period from 1979 to 1991. All were treated with triple chemotherapy, using rifampicin, isoniazid and pyrazinamide for nine months. No patient had a synovectomy; surgery was limited to open biopsy or salvage procedures such as posterior release and arthrodesis for late stages of the disease. The radiological appearance of t...

A FEW general observations are pertinent before considering the treatment of tuberculosis of the knee in its different clinical manifestations. 1. Tuberculosis of a joint implies that blood-stream dissemination following primary infection has occurred. Full investigation of the patient with regard to the lungs, the urine and other bones and joints is therefore essential. 2. Monarticular rheumat...

Results: In the study period, there were 7 cases with concurrent or past history of tuberculosis. Two cases had concurrent tuberculosis of axillary lymph nodes, one had contralateral calcified tuberculous axillary lymph nodes that were radiologically suspicious for malignancy and the other one had ipsi-lateral tuberculous axillary lymph nodes discovered during axillary dissection. Both were rel...