Original Article

Skeletal Tuberculosis - 1963

Authors: WALTER C. JONES, III, M.D., WALLACE E. MILLER, M.D.

Abstract

The authors emphasize that tuberculosis of the bones and joints is being encountered especially as a disease of the elderly. It is not unusual, therefore, to miss the correct diagnosis unless one adopts an attitude of suspicion toward joint disease in the older person.

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