Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hevroni, Avigdor
• Koplewitz, Benjamin Z

Titel

Bone within Bone — Chronic Osteomyelitis

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2007-02, Vol.356 (8), p.e7

Ort / Verlag

Boston: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This afebrile 8-year-old Ethiopian girl presented with a limp and a small, pus-secreting wound on her left thigh. An afebrile 8-year-old Ethiopian girl presented with a limp. Two years earlier, she had had mild trauma followed by “bone infection” and had received short courses of oral antibiotics. Examination revealed a small, pus-secreting wound on the anterior aspect of her left thigh. Her blood count was normal, but her erythrocyte sedimentation rate was 48 mm in the first hour. A radiograph of both legs (Panel A) and an axial computed tomographic scan (Panel B) with reformatting in the sagittal plane (Panel C) showed severe deformity of the left femur, proximal small lytic lesions, destruction and condensation throughout with sequestration . . .