Table 1.

Compilation of all the cases of tuberculosis of sternoclavicular joint.

Cases	Age sex	Site	Clinical features	Duration of symptoms	Radiology	Histology/cytology/ESR/CRP	AFB	Culture	TB-PCR	Treatment	Follow-up	Associated TB	Remark
1	21/M	B/L	Painful swelling, wt loss, loss of appetite	6 months	MRI- bilateral lytic area with bone marrow edema with collection Lt SCJ; Chest xray- left pleural effusion; Bone scan- multifocal disease	USG guided aspiration showed pus ESR-30	+	+	NA	ATT for 8 months	8 months, symptoms improved and then lost to follow-up	Lung, Spine D5 and D7, Left sided pleural effusion	Multifocal TB
2	38/F	Lt	Painful swelling, fever	9 months	MRI- bone marrow edema and cortical erosion with collection; USG- collection in Lt SCJ	Cytology -Chronic Granulomatous pathology; Histopath- Chronic Granulomatous patholgy; Mantoux- ESR 28	+	–	NA	ATT for 4 months, surgical debridement and ATT continued for 4 months	8 months, symptom free	None	Misdiagnosed as strain of SCJ and treated conservatively
3	64/F	Rt	Pain	4 months	MRI- bone marrow edema Rt SCJ	ESR-25	–	NA	–	ATT for 12 months	1 year	None	Initially diagnosed as SCJ osteoarthritis
4	29/M	Rt	Painful swelling	4 months	MRI- erosion of articular margin with synovial thickening and collections with mild subluxation and widening of space	USG guided aspiration; ESR-23	–	–	+	ATT for 18 months	2 years	TB lymphadenitis for 5 months ATT	Conservative treatment from quack
5	56/F	Rt	Painful swelling	5 months	MRI- marrow edema with periarticular collection	USG guided FNA- granulomatous pathology; ESR-40	NA	–	+	ATT for 12 months	16 months	None	Initially diagnosed as SCJ osteoarthritis
6	30/M	Rt	Painful swelling; history of indirect trauma	5 months	MRI- marrow edema in medial aspect of clavicle with collection in Lt SCJ	Aspiration-granulomatous pathology; ESR-34	–	–	NA	ATT for 12 months	2 year, then lost to follow-up	None	Traumatic SCJ
7	40/M	Rt	Pain, weight loss, cough, fever	2 months	Discovered incidentally on chest CT	Cytology -chronic granulomatous pathology; ESR-22	NA	+	NA	ATT for 6 months	6 months	chest TB, pleural effusion, TB lymphadenitis	Multifocal
8	27/F	Rt	Painful swelling	3 months	MRI- marrow edema with periarticular collection	ESR-31	+	+	NA	ATT for 12 months	13 years	None	With pregnancy
9	42/F	B/L	Painful swelling	6 months	MRI- bone marrow edema and cortical erosion with collection	Cytology -chronic granulomatous pathology; ESR-29	NA	NA	+	ATT for 12 months	2.5 years	None	Recurrent Rheumatoid arthritis
10	11/M	Lt	Painful swelling	2 months	MRI- marrow edema in medial aspect of clavicle with collection in left SCJ	ESR-17; CRP-9	NA	NA	+	ATT for 6 months	6 months	Pleural effusion
11	65/M	Rt	Painful swelling	3 weeks	CT chest - erosion over both SCJ	Cytology -chronic granulomatous pathology; ESR-37	–	–	NA	ATT for 4 months	Lost to follow-up after 4 months	Known c/o CKD
12	30/M	Lt	Painful swelling, discharging sinus	2 months	MRI- erosion in left SCJ with collection; CT scan- showed destruction involving Lt SCJ	ESR-70; CRP-49 Montoux -	–	NA	–	ATT for 5 months	5 months	Cough and on and off fever with history of weight loss
13	38/M	Rt	Painful swelling	1 month	MRI- signal intensity changes over medial aspect of clavicle with erosions and small collections	Aspiration; ESR-17 CRP>10.	NA	+	+	ATT for 12 months	19 months	None
14	19/M	Rt	Painful swelling	1 month	MRI- collection in SCJ with bone marrow edema	ESR-41; CRP-20	NA	–	+	ATT for 12 months	18 months	None
15	20/M	Rt	Painful swelling	2 months	MRI- bilateral SCJ marrow edema With Rt effusion	ESR-32	–	–	–	ATT for 9 months	9 months	None
16	30/M	Rt	Painful swelling	6 weeks	MRI- collection in SCJ with bone marrow edema	ESR-29	–	–	–	ATT for 12 months	12 months	None

Abbreviations: M-Male, F-Female, Rt- Right side, Lt- Left side, NA- Not available, ATT- Anti-tubercular therapy, CKD- Chronic kidney disease, SCJ- Sternoclavicular joint, ‘+’ is positive, ‘-’ is negative.