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Clinical Reports
Multiple joint tuberculosis presenting as HLA-B27 disease
Abstract
A case of multifocal osteoarticular tuberculosis in a young Caucasian male is presented. The diagnostic difficulty, compounded by slow progression of the disorder and the presence of the tissue antigen HLA-B27, is discussed.
- osteoarticular tuberculosis
- HLA-B27 antigen
- Reiter's disease
- ankylosing spondylitis