RADIOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF OSTEOARTICULAR COMPLICATIONS IN BURULI ULCERS

The authors examine radiographic aspects of osteo-articular and soft t issue lesions on the basis of 30 files of in-patients suffering from B uruli ulcers. They specify the chronology and precociousness of certai n signs: soft tissue lesions, bone demineralization, periostal apposit ion two months after the beginning of signs, and later osteolysis and joint complications. These lesions are not specific and occur contiguo usly to soft tissue lesions. The authors specify the part of secondary -infection germs in the appearence of bone lesions.