Infectious Bone Diseases (Subscribe)  

Author: Ahmad Bo-Eisa, MD, Chairman, Program Director, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, King Fahad Hospital, Saudi Arabia Coauthor(s): Sadek Al-Omran, MD, Consultant Of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrologist, Departments of Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology, Maternity and Children's Hospital-Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia; Abbas Al-Abbad, MD, Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program Director, Section of Pediatric Nephrology, Department...

Author: Sabah Kalyoussef, DO, & Robert W Tolan, Jr, MD
Synonyms and related keywords: osteomyelitis, inflammation of the bone, bone infection, central osteitis
Osteomyelitis, or inflammation of the bone, is usually caused by bacterial infection. Bone infections in children are primarily of hematogenous origin, although cases secondary to penetrating trauma, surgery, or...

OTA Trauma & Fracture Care Residency Core Curriculum Lectures Clifford Jones 2004

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery Vol. 9 No. 1, June 2001
Susan Stott, Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland New Zealand
Paediatric musculoskeletal infection remains an important cause of morbidity. Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus is still the most common organism although the incidence of methicillin resistant S. aureus in the community is rising. Osteomyelitis and...

Puncture wound infections are discussed at present
Author - R. Jay Cummings, M.D. Nemours Children's Clinic Jacksonville, FL 32207

A case of Total Hip Arthroplasty infection with Staphylococcus aureus co-infected with Salmonella choleraesuis was treated with two-stage exchange and administration of vancomycin and ciprofloxacin. No signs of re-infection have appeared 14 months after surgery. Cases of Salmonella infection of hip prostheses are quite rare, with only a handful of...

Salmonella Osteomyelitis in an otherwise healthy adult male - successful management with conservative treatment: a case report