Abstract
An Isolated chest wall tuberculosis (TB) is very rare form of presentation and represents 1% of all cases of osteoarticular tuberculosis. We report a case of 3 years old baby boy, vaccinated completely as per age and immunocompetent presented with asymptomatic chest wall swelling since last two years gradually increased to present size without any associated complaints and without any past history of any respiratory disease including pulmonary tuberculosis. Baby was treated with oral antibiotics for the same but did not respond to treatment symptomatically so referred for further treatment. On histopathology and microbiological study it showed tuberculous abscess.
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