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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 "bone disease" symptom

  • achondroplasia
  • cushing syndrome
  • dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome
  • phenylketonuria
  • pyomyositis
  • severe combined immunodeficiency

This symptom has already been validated