Diagnosis of bone tuberculosis

Diagnosis of bone tuberculosis

Common methods for diagnosing bone tuberculosis include:

Bacterial culture: people with bone tuberculosis are highly likely to develop lung infections.

Therefore, doctors often take sputum samples for testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria.

Biopsy: the doctor may order a biopsy, which consists of taking part of the tissue around the infected area and checking for the existence of bacteria that cause bone tuberculosis.

Examination of body fluids: the doctor may suck pleural fluid to check for infection or take cerebrospinal fluid around the spinal cord, synovial fluid for diagnostic tests for bone tuberculosis.

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