Refractory tenosynovitis with ‘rice bodies’ in the hand due to Mycobacterium intracellulare
| Autor: | Naoki Hasegawa, Igen Hongo, Keizo Fukumoto, Ho Namkoong |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Male medicine.medical_specialty Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection 03 medical and health sciences Images in Infection 0302 clinical medicine Refractory medicine Thumb surgery Humans Mycobacterium avium complex 030212 general & internal medicine Ethambutol Aged Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection 030203 arthritis & rheumatology Tenosynovitis biology business.industry Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Left thumb General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Mycobacterium avium Complex Surgery Infectious Diseases Thumb business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Infection |
| ISSN: | 1439-0973 0300-8126 |
| Popis: | A 76-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of swelling and tenderness of the left thumb and thenar. The patient had type 2 diabetes mellitus. He had been bitten by a dog on the left hand 1 year previously, and the wound had healed without treatment. He was initially diagnosed with non-infectious tenosynovitis and received steroid injections repeatedly (Fig. 1a). Thereafter, open diagnostic-drainage was performed, and the presence of ‘rice bodies’ was visually noted in the hand (Fig. 1b). * Naoki Hasegawa n-hasegawa@z8.keio.jp |
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