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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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Diagnosis of osteoarticular tuberculosis
Vasu Vardhan1, Uday Yanamandra2
1 Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Uday Yanamandra
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra
India
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Accurate diagnosis in osteoarticular tuberculosis poses a difficulty due to deep inaccessible lesions, paucibacillary state, and initiation of empirical ATT in most of the cases. Diagnosis of osteoarticular TB evolved from clinicoradio- logical to serodiagnosis to detection of DNA/RNA of MTB origin. Newer modalities which aid in early diagnosis and treatment go a long way in management of osteoarticular TB by significantly decreasing morbidity. Subjecting all cases to panel of investigations including AFB staining, AFB culture/sensitivity, PCR, and histopathology on obtain- ing tissue have been proved more efficacious than resorting to single test. In particular serology alone is not diag- nostic. High sensitivity and specificity of PCR and histopathology are found to be most useful diagnostic modalities in studies. Thus gold standard remains to be tissue diagnosis. |
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