A case of chronic arthritis due to Mycobacterium intracellulare after trauma

Jae Gyung Kim; Dae Won Kim; Yul Hee Cho; Sun Mie Yim; Ju Hyun Kang; Young Bin Joo; Hyeon Hui Kang; Jeong Sup Song; Hyoung Kyu Yoon

doi:10.4046/trd.2012.72.2.191

A case of chronic arthritis due to Mycobacterium intracellulare after trauma

Jae Gyung Kim, Dae Won Kim, Yul Hee Cho, Sun Mie Yim, Ju Hyun Kang, Young Bin Joo, Hyeon Hui Kang, Jeong Sup Song, Hyoung Kyu Yoon

Catholic University of Korea

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While nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) infections are recently on the rise, arthritis caused by NTM is hardly reported in Korea. NTM arthritis has no distinctive clinical characteristics from chronic arthritis. Tuberculosis of the joint specifically produces similar clinical and pathologic presentations to NTM arthritis, so it is not easy to distinguish between them. We report a case of Mycobacterium intracellulare in an arthritis patient after trauma and surgical repair of the injury. At the beginning, the patient was diagnosed as tuberculous tenosynovitis through pathology without microbiologic evidence. The final diagnosis was made after subsequent recurrences for several years. The misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis led to irreversible joint destruction and functional impairment. NTM infection must be included in the differential diagnosis of chronic arthritis at the outset. Copyright

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	191-196
Number of pages	6
Journal	Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Volume	72
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.2012.72.2.191
State	Published - 29 Feb 2012

Keywords

Arthritis
Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection
Wounds and injuries

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A case of chronic arthritis due to Mycobacterium intracellulare after trauma

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