{"title":"Extra-long treatment of MDR-TB osteomyelitis of humerus due to neurotoxicity from the 2nd-line drugs: a case report.","authors":"Naser Naser, Habib Abdulla, Husain Kadhem","doi":"10.1186/s43162-023-00225-0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infection with tuberculosis (TB) still considered a leading infectious cause of death, osteomyelitis TB rare entity, and being extraspinal MDR-TB make it very rare case; most of experience in treating osteomyelitis TB was derived from pulmonary TB experience, and we present a case of humerus MDR-TB that was treated for 5 years, with several interruption due to side effect and other causes.</p>","PeriodicalId":22465,"journal":{"name":"The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine","volume":"35 1","pages":"41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10262133/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s43162-023-00225-0","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2023/6/13 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Infection with tuberculosis (TB) still considered a leading infectious cause of death, osteomyelitis TB rare entity, and being extraspinal MDR-TB make it very rare case; most of experience in treating osteomyelitis TB was derived from pulmonary TB experience, and we present a case of humerus MDR-TB that was treated for 5 years, with several interruption due to side effect and other causes.