Tubercular monoarthritis of the glenohumeral joint in a non-endemic region: Vancouver, Canada

BMJ Case Rep. 2020 Nov 4;13(11):e239844. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2020-239844.

Author

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, The University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada t.murray@mail.utoronto.ca.

No abstract available

Keywords: TB and other respiratory infections; bone and joint infections; musculoskeletal syndromes; orthopaedics; radiology.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Antibiotics, Antitubercular / therapeutic use
Arthritis / etiology*
Arthrocentesis / methods
Canada
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
Male
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / genetics
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
Patient Discharge
Shoulder Joint / diagnostic imaging
Shoulder Joint / microbiology*
Shoulder Joint / pathology
Shoulder Joint / surgery
Tenosynovitis / diagnostic imaging
Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / diagnosis*
Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / drug therapy
Ultrasonography / methods
Young Adult

Substances

Antibiotics, Antitubercular