Osteomyelitis in a general hospital. A five-year study showing an increase in subacute osteomyelitis
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Osteomyelitis in a general hospital. A five-year study showing an increase in subacute osteomyelitis.
We have reviewed 60 patients with primary bone infections; 21 of these (35%) had subacute osteomyelitis, a figure which supports other recent observations that this variant of bone infection is becoming more widespread. In this group open culture and biopsy were necessary in order to exclude bony malignancy, and a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate proved a useful diagnostic aid. All the pat...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0301-620X,2044-5377
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.69b5.3680342