Rare finding of right radius tuberculosis

We report a case of a patient in his early 20s who attended a rural charitable clinic with persistent right wrist pain for almost 2 months. Due to the absence of any systemic symptoms, the patient relied on self-medication with analgesics and did not seek medical evaluation during this period. Subsequent imaging of the right wrist revealed a well-defined lytic lesion in the styloid process of the radius. Histopathological analysis confirmed granulomatous inflammation, and further microbiological culture confirmed <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> The patient was started on antitubercular treatment which resulted in significant clinical improvement. Osteoarticular tuberculosis (TB) of the radius is rare, and this case highlights the importance of maintaining a high index of suspicion for rare sites of osteoarticular TB in endemic regions, even in the absence of classical constitutional symptoms.