First case report on pyogenic tenosynovitis in the hand caused by Paenibacillus sp.

Abstract

CLINICAL CASE The case report is of the patient K.T.M., female, 23 years old, professional Judo athlete. At the time of infection she was in her second month of rehabilitation from an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction of her left knee, operated on 11/03/2016. Her main complaint was pain and edema of her right hand for the past 10 days. She denied any type of trauma, fever or chills. When she came into the emergency room she had already been seen in two different hospitals and was treated as inflammatory tendinitis caused by overuse. She had been prescribed a forearm splint and sent home.