ABSTRACT

Especially in endemic countries and in immunocompromised cases, musculoskeletal tuberculosis infection may develop with or without lung involvement. It is important to distinguish the musculoskeletal involvement of tuberculosis from inflammatory diseases as well as other bacterial infections and to diagnose and treat it early and accurately to prevent joint deformities. Accurate diagnosis and differential diagnosis require a combined evaluation of the basic radiological, epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory features of the lesions. This text; in addition to spondylodiscitis and arthritis, which are the common forms of musculoskeletal tuberculosis, includes osteomyelitis, tenosynovitis, bursitis, pyomyositis and Poncet’s disease, the involvement pattern and basic radiological features and differential diagnosis criteria.