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Documented Paecilomyces lilacinus infections are quite rare. Most reports involve immunocompromised patients or implanted objects. We report the first case of complicated soft tissue infection caused by P. lilacinus in an immunocompetent host. The spectrum of infections involving this fungus is reviewed.
Complicated soft tissue infection with prepatellar bursitis caused by...

Forty seven cases of prepatellar bursitis are reported. Twenty one patients had sustained a recent injury with a break in the skin which had caused the infection and seventeen patients were employed in jobs which involved kneeling. Oral antibiotics proved to be inadequate treatment in many cases. Splintage and intravenous...

We report the first case, to our knowledge, of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) olecranon bursitis in a 57-year-old man who was treated with a 12-week course of alefacept for psoriasis. Atypical organisms,including mycobacteria, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of infections developing in patients taking alefacept or in those...

A case is reported of a post-traumatic olecranon bursitis caused by Mycobacterium kansasii following an injury sustained in a public swimming pool. It responded to surgical debridement and combined rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol antimicrobial therapy. A literature search was performed and a treatment regimen for this uncommon condition is...

Olecranon bursitis is relatively common. One third of episodes are septic. Most of the remainder are non-septic, with occasional rheumatological causes. Trauma can cause both septic and non-septic olecranon bursitis. Clinical features are helpful in separating septic from non-septic olecranon bursitis, but there may be local erythema in both. Aspiration...

# Mechanism
  1. Often follows acute trauma
# Causes
  1. Staphylococcus aureus (80% of cases)
  2. Streptococcus species
  3. Enterococcus
  4. Escherichia coli
  5. Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Correspondence on previous article "Olecranon and prepatellar bursitis. Diagnosis and treatment." in West J Med. 149 page 607. Treating septic prepatellar bursitis. W L Hennrikus, J R Champa, and G R Mack West J Med. 1989 September; 151(3): 331–332. Full text available

Twenty-one patients with surgically and/or pathologically proved tuberculosis of the tendon sheaths or bursae were evaluated. Routine radiography, arthrography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging were used in some or all of the patients.
CONCLUSION: All imaging methods can provide complementary information that is helpful for determination of therapy....