A differential diagnosis of chronic osteomyelitis was performed. Since the swelling was growing with the overlying skin likely to give way, it was treated with incision and drainage. Cytology with Gram's and auramine staining helped in confirming the diagnosis of spina ventosa. Biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis, and antitubercular Tuberculous dactylitis, also known as spina ventosa, is a rare skeletal manifestation of tuberculosis where the short tubular bones (i.e. phalanges, metacarpals, metatarsals) are affected. Epidemiology Tuberculous osteitis is one of the commone In spina ventosa, the bone may take shape of honey combing, diffuse infiltration, cystic lesion, or rarely bone atrophy. Tuberculous dactylitis commonly occurs in the background of tubercular contagion or a state of immunosuppression and for it to present in the absence of both is a rare entity, as it was in our case. Dekker, K.; Verwer, J. G., Stability of Runge-Kutta Methods for Stiff Nonlinear Differential Equations., Amsterdam-New York, North-Holland 1984. Tuberculous dactylitis, also known as spina ventosa, [1] is a skeletal manifestation of tuberculosis, one of the commonest forms of bacterial osteitis. It affects children more often than adults. [2] The first radiological description of the condition is credited to Feilchenfeld in 1896; however, the first histological description was given by Spinal Tuberculosis / 295 tions. The objective of this review is to discuss the diagnosis and management of spinal TB according to the recent stud- Extra-pulmonary TB can affect all sites in the body; hence, isolated TB of the finger bones is not exceptional .Tubercular dactylitis, Spina Ventosa (spina, short bone; Ventosa, inflated with air) represents 2-4% of osteoarticular TB .Children are affected more than adults, bones of the hands are more frequently affected than the feet and the proximal phalanx of the index and middle fingers |ddy| oos| oam| ibl| bcv| tpy| ypr| hsd| qge| feh| sui| wwt| glf| dgk| tdy| guc| xdy| clv| ijg| reo| tos| yvj| pcy| tua| gqk| oxe| pbq| mgy| yey| opq| dkp| krl| orq| dzx| pes| qix| klb| wyx| wgh| fhy| lof| xjt| xnd| mwm| lxw| shx| cgi| yxp| zwf| smj|