An Interesting Case of Dactylitis
Abstract
Dactylitis due to the complication of tuberculosis is not seen very often now a days. Here a dactylitis case which was misdiagnosed as juvenil romatoid arthritis in radiology and which was considered as hand-food syndrome due to sickle cell anemia is presented. This patient was diagnosed ag tuberculosis with positive PPD (20 mm) and systemic findings (dactylitis, epididymitis and hepatosplenomegaly); active tuberculosis in the father. For this reason diseases causing dactylitis in infants is looked over. Because it is not seen very often , dactylits due otuberculosis is emphasized.
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