Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Anterior chest wall tuberculous abscess: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Anterior chest wall tuberculous abscess a case report Theodossis S Papavramidis 1 Vassilis N Papadopoulos1 Antonis Michalopoulos1 Daniel Paramythiotis1 Stamatia Potsi2 Georgia Raptou3 Anna Kalogera-Foutzila2 and Nick Harlaftis1 Address 11st Propedeutic Surgical Clinic Aristotle s University of Thessaloniki . University Hospital Thessaloniki Greece 2Department of Radiology Aristotle s University of Thessaloniki . University Hospital Thessaloniki Greece and 3Department of Pathology Aristotle s University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine Greece Email Theodossis S Papavramidis - papavramidis@ Vassilis N Papadopoulos - bnpap2003@ Antonis Michalopoulos - amichal@ Daniel Paramythiotis - danosprx@ Stamatia Potsi - matinapotsi@ Georgia Raptou - spapavra@ Anna Kalogera-Foutzila - kalogera@ Nick Harlaftis - papavramidou@ Corresponding author Published 26 November 2007 Received 22 July 2007 _ I 10 7 I in Accepted 26 November 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1 152 doi l 752-1947-1-152 This article is available from http content 1 1 152 2007 Papavramidis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ The granulomatous inflammation of tuberculosis usually involves the lungs and the hilar lymph nodes. Musculoskeletal tuberculosis TB occurs in 1-3 of patients with TB while TB of the chest wall constitutes 1 to 5 of all cases of musculoskeletal TB. Furthermore nowadays it is rarer to find extrapulmonary TB in immunocompetent .
