STUDY OF NON-SPINAL, EXTRA-ARTICULAR, OSSEOUS TUBERCULOSIS, ITS MODES OF PRESENTATION, DIAGNOSTIC PITFALLS an‎d TREATMENT

The incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis has increased tremendously during present decade and is expected to rise further. It is true for developing as well as developed countries, in fact tuberculosis remains a major international problem despite advances in radiological diagnosis and anti-tuberculous therapy (Vohra et al 1997). Contributing factors are mainly, HIV infection, poor case finding, improper treatment in doses and duration, and poor compliance, which results in multi drug resistance tuberculosis (Narain et al, 1992)