Tuberculosis of fifth metatarsal bone- a rare case report
Apoorva HC, Amit Kumar C Jain, Suresh Kumar.
Abstract
Abscess and ulcers of foot are common in adult, especially if they are diabetic and are commonly caused due to pyogenic infection. However, occasionally atypical organism gives us surgical surprises. Rarely,do we encounter tuberculosis of foot.We report rare case of tuberculosis of fifth metatarsal in a middle aged non diabetic female patient.
Key words: Foot, abscess, tuberculosis, metatarsal, India
scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.
The articles in Bibliomed are open access articles licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to work properly, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from. More InfoGot It!
