We report a case of tuberculous vertebral osteomyelitis of the first and second cervical vertebrae with extensive adjacent soft-tissue involvement and extension into the mediastinum and bilateral ...

Review of medical and radiological records and literature to study the diagnosis of tuberculous vertebral osteomyelitis (TVO) and the differential diagnosis between TVO and pyogenic vertebral ...

All types of organisms including viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi can produce osteomyelitic infection. The most common ones are those produced by bacteria; the pyogenic bacteria and tuberculosis ...

KARACHI: Sixty per cent of tuberculosis osteomyelitis cases are spinal in nature, Dr Sohail Rafi of the Dr Ziauddin University Hospital said at a workshop on Monday. He attributed the prevalence of ...

Osteomyelitis is treated by an orthopaedic surgeon, but it should be managed by a multidisciplinary team including infectious disease specialists, surgeons and reconstructive surgeons along with ...

One third of the world's population is affected by tuberculosis. The incidence of this disease in Western countries is increasing alarmingly every year. Primary infection is usually in the lungs with ...

With two lakh patients in India and significant prevalence in Pune, disease is a cause for concern PUNE: For 53-year-old Latabai (name changed), it started with tingling numbness in he legs, heaviness ...

A progressive limp and swelling of the heel developed in a previously healthy two-year-old boy over a two-week period. The child had been born in India and had lived in Canada since the age of seven ...