Tuberculous dactylitis is a rare condition. It usually involves bones of hands and feet, predominantly seen in children. The condition characterized by cystic expansion the bone due to filing medullary cavity with granulation tissue leading formation pus thinning cortex. term spina ventosa used describe this radiologically. We report case tuberculous left middle finger 15 yrs. old female patien...

Musculoskeletal ultrasound (US) has an increasingly important role in the assessment of spondyloarthritis (SpA) not only for its ability to detect synovial and tendon involvement but also for the accurate imaging of enthesitis, the clinical hallmark feature of SpA. As already known, most cases of enthesitis are subclinical in SpA and US is an effective technique used to detect them. Also, in ca...

Tuberculous infection of metacarpals, metatarsals and phalanges is known as tuberculous dactylitis. There is a spindle shaped expansion of the short tubular bones due to tuberculous granuloma. Hence it is also known as spina ventosa. In our case, a two year old boy with a swelling in the metacarpal was provisionally diagnosed as enchondromata while the possibility of spina ventosa was kept in m...