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Primary tuberculous pyomyositis of quadriceps femoris in an immunocompetent individual.

[pyomyositis]

Primary tuberculous pyomyositis is a rare manifestation of musculoskeletal tuberculosis especially in immunocompetent individuals without a focus of tuberculosis in the body and the underlying bone disease. It can cause a diagnostic dilemma for a physician and surgeon because of its similar presentation to soft tissue sarcomas, hematomas, and myopathies. We present a case of a 45-year-old immunocompetant gentleman with a thigh swelling with sepsis due to pyomyositis of the quadriceps requiring a multimodal management of drainage of abscess, debridement of devitalized muscle, antitubercular drugs, and physiotherapy. In a tubercular endemic country, a high index of suspicion is required to diagnose this disease which can be cured completely.

Diseases presenting "sepsis" symptom

  • acute rheumatic fever
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • cushing syndrome
  • cystinuria
  • dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex
  • focal myositis
  • harlequin ichthyosis
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • hirschsprung disease
  • homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria
  • inclusion body myositis
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • kindler syndrome
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • locked-in syndrome
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome
  • monosomy 21
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • primary hyperoxaluria type 1
  • pyomyositis
  • scrub typhus
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • typhoid

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