The clinical-morphological profile of bone and joints tuberculosis - our experience in relation to literature data.

Aim: The authors made a morphological assessment of musculoskeletal tissue samples from patients admitted in Surgical Departments of the Emergency County Hospital of Craiova, Romania, between 1990 and 2015, proved as presenting tuberculous lesions in the Department of Pathology of the same Hospital.

Materials And Methods: The studied material consisted of bone, joint and sometimes muscle tissue fragments resulted from biopsies or surgical excisions from 54 cases coming out of 841 patients investigated in the above-mentioned period of time, where the established histological diagnosis was tuberculosis (TB). For diagnostic confirmation, Ziehl-Neelsen staining has been used as a rule but, in some cases, immunohistochemistry was also used.