Tuberculosis of Ankle Joint – rare case reports

Tuberculosis of Ankle Joint – rare case reports

Amandeep Singh Bakshi¹, Ravinder kumar Banga², Dharminder Singh³, Gurnik Singh⁴, Harsimrat Kaur⁵

¹Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, GMC and Rajindra Hospital, Patiala. ²Assistant Professor,Department of orthopaedics ,GMC and Rajindra Hospital ,Patiala. ³Senior Resident,Department of Orthopaedics,GMC and Rajindra hospital ,Patiala. ⁴Junior Resident,Department of orthopaedics,GMC and Rajindra hospital ,Patiala. ⁵M.B.B.S student ,Government medical college Amritsar .

Few cases of ankle tuberculosis have been reported in the literature. We describe two cases of tuberculosis of ankle presented to Orthopaedics OPD at Rajindra Hospital, Patiala. Case one was a 34 year male with complain of swelling of the left ankle since 3 years and a discharging sinus at the tip of the old healed scar on the left ankle for 6 months. The patient was an old case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis treated with anti-tubercular therapy 6 years back. On laboratory evaluation, CBC, ESR and CRP were normal. Ankle X-Ray showed a lytic lesion in both malleoli. The patient was admitted and debridement of the left ankle was done, and the tissue specimen CB-NAAT was positive. The patient was subsequently put on anti-tubercular therapy for 11 months. His follow-up visits were uneventful. Case two was a 31 old year female presented to us with complaint of pain at right ankle since 5 months. Pain was followed by swelling which progressed over a period of time of one month. MRI was done which showed bone defect with erosions Tissue sample were sent for histopathological examination and CBNAAT.CBNAAT result came to be positive. Patient was put on ATT. Patient improved after ATT. Ankle TB is a rare entity ,must be considered in the differential diagnosis of a swelling of the foot and ankle., requiring a high index of suspicion. As the disease is progressive and promotes degenerative changes of the articular cartilage, early identification is critical for successful treatment and to avoid permanent functional disability.

Keywords: CBNAAT (catrige based nucleic amplification test)

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Amandeep Singh Bakshi, Ravinder kumar Banga, Dharminder Singh, Gurnik Singh, Harsimrat Kaur. Tuberculosis of Ankle Joint – rare case reports. International Journal of Case Reports, 2022, 6:271. DOI: 10.28933/ijcr-2021-10-2205

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