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        <journal-title>British Journal of Medical and Health Research</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">BJMHR</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2394-2967</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.46624/bjmhr.2018.v5.i05.003</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">BJMHR0505003</article-id>
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        <article-title>Importance of Ultrasonographic guided aspirated sample in early diagnosis of Musculoskeletal tuberculosis among the patients attending tertiary health care centre.</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Singh</surname>
            <given-names>Vikramjeet</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Phukan</surname>
            <given-names>Anil Chandra</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Borgohain</surname>
            <given-names>Bhaskar .</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute Of Medical Sciences, Lucknow</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of health and Medical Sciences</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2018-05-01">
        <month>05</month>
        <day>01</day>
        <year>2018</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <abstract>
        <p>Introduction and Objectives
Clinicians consider musculoskeletal tuberculosis as diagnostic dilemma because diagnosis frequently gets delayed due to its varied clinical presentation, false negative results on smear microscopy and less sensitivity on culture methods (20-40%). The main objective was to know the effectiveness of using ultrasonographic guided aspirate sample in early diagnosis of musculoskeletal tuberculosis.
Materials and Methods
In this study, a total of thirty seven clinical specimens like pus swab and ultrasonography guided (USG) pus aspiration of newly suspected musculoskeletal tuberculosis patients were evaluated for microscopy, culture and molecular detection of M. tuberculosis.
Results
The study reveals prevalence of 45.9% musculoskeletal tuberculosis among the clinically suspected patients. The most commonly involved sites in suspected musculoskeletal tuberculosis were hip joint (23.1%). USG guided pus comprises only 26.9% of the samples collected, however, yield of M. tuberculosis from them were 71%. PCR detected the maximum number of cases of musculoskeletal tuberculosis 17 (45.9%) followed by culture method 9 (24%) and smear microscopy 1 (2.7%).  
Conclusion
This observation will help guiding clinicians in effective management of musculoskeletal tuberculosis cases because delayed diagnosis and treatment in musculoskeletal TB results in poor outcome.</p>
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        <kwd>Polymerase Chain reaction</kwd>
        <kwd>Extrapulmonary tuberculosis</kwd>
        <kwd>Osteoarticular</kwd>
        <kwd>USG</kwd>
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