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Tuberculous synovitis of the knee in a 65-year-old man.

Vojnosanit Pregl

December 2009

University of Medicine and Pharmacy Gr T Popa Iasi, Clinical Hospital of Rehabilitation Iasi, Romania.

Introduction: Tuberculous (TB) synovitis is a rare, treatable, potentially lethal form of extrapulmonary TB resulting from massive lymphohematogenous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). We presented a case of TB synovitis of the knee in a Caucasian HIV-negative man from Romania, a high TB incidence country.

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