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SPINA VENTOSA, FORME OUBLIEE DE LA TUBERCULOSE. A PROPOS DE DEUX CAS

par Pepersack, Francine ;Yourassowsky, Eugène
Référence Acta clinica Belgica (Ed. multilingue), 34, 6, page (360-364)
Publication Publié, 1979

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Résumé :

Tuberculous dactylitis is easily curable by specific chemotherapy, but the diagnosis is often overlooked mainly because of the relative rarity of skeletal tuberculosis, the deficiency of the initial X-ray findings and the absence of fast bacilli in the smears from sinus tracts. The recovery in these sites of Staphylococcus aureus merely signifies a colonising by these bacteria but discards the diagnosis outright, while a biopsy specimen of tissue will often assert it.