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Case Reports
. 2009 Aug:57:595-6.

Tuberculosis of sternum: three cases with different presentations

Ambar Khaira  1 , Deepa Dash Khaira, Ankur Gupta, Deepankar Bhowmik, O P Kalra, Suresh Chandra Tiwari
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Case Reports

Tuberculosis of sternum: three cases with different presentations

Ambar Khaira et al. J Assoc Physicians India. 2009 Aug.

Abstract

Sternum is resistant to infections and thus infrequent site of osteomyelitis. Involvement of sternum by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rare. We report case of 37-year-old male with isolated tuberculosis of the sternum, a 14-year-old girl with tuberculosis of the sternum and Potts spine and a 55-year-old male with tubercular sinus of the sternum, three different presentations of the same disease.

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