Atypical mycobacterial tenosynovitis and bursitis of the wrist

作者：S**** Hatice Tuba^*; Zor Fatih; Kocaoglu Murat; Bulakbasi Nail

来源：Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2009, 15(4): 266-268.

DOI：10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.1506-07.1

• atypical mycobacterium infections
• tenosynovitis
• wrist
• magnetic resonance imaging
• polymerase chain reaction

Atypical mycobacterial tenosynovitis of the wrist can easily be misdiagnosed as synovial chondromatosis. Both sonography and magnetic resonance imaging plays an important role in depicting "rice bodies" within the distended tendon sheaths and bursae of atypical mycobacterial infection. An endemic place for Mycobacterium species and the occupation of the patient should raise the suspicion for the disease. Polymerase chain reaction of the distended tendon fluid is a sensitive, specific and rapid method in identification of the mycobacteria.

• 出版日期2009-12
• 单位中国人民解放军军事医学科学院