Tehran University of Medical Sciences Case Reports in Clinical Practice 2538-2683 1 2 2016 09 24 58 60 EN Zeinab Naderpour Department of Internal Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mahbube Ebrahimpur Department of Internal Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Khademi Department of Infectious Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2016 01 24 2016 04 26 Primary Tuberculous Pyomyositis is a rare manifestation of musculoskeletal tuberculosis especially in immunocompetent individuals without a focus of tuberculosis in the body and the underlying bone disease [1]. We describe a 45 years-old incarcerated immunocompetant man with nontraumatic wound of right thumb since 9 months ago. The diagnosis of tuberculousdactylitis was based on positive acid fast bacilli using Ziehl-Neelson staining and Histopathology from involved skin. https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/view/30 https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/download/30/19