Radiology Cases Tuberculosis

Description: The radiograph will show bone destruction and this process will breach fibrous tissues boundaries more easily than will tumour. Disc space loss would be a characteristic feature of spinal disease, as well as the patches of bone destruction. In Central Middlesex Hospital cases, any bone or joint may be affected. The characteristic feature of tuberculous arthritis as opposed to pyogenic infection is the relative preservation of the weight bearing surfaces and destruction at the joint margins. Perhaps this is a consequence of mechanical pressures and the organism's greater preference for higher effective partial pressures of oxygen.