Seventy-seven children admitted with a provisional diagnosis of acute osteomyelitis over a three year period have been reviewed. Acute haematogenous osteomyelitis was confirmed in 45 of these patients whose ages varied from three days to 14 years with a mean of 6.2 years. All patients were treated with intravenous fusidic acid and cloxacillin with splintage for three weeks followed by oral anti...

It is common experience that pyogenic osteomyelitis varies in severity from an acute or fulminating illness to a comparatively mild one. Since 1944, when antibiotics, with or without surgical drainage, have been used successfully in treatment, the severely ill patient has been seen less often, and there has been a marked increase in the number of patients presenting with a mild or subacute illn...

Primary chronic osteomyelitis of the jaw is an uncommon non-suppurative, chronic inflammatory disease of unknown origin. It can manifest as early or adult onset and is characterised by lack of pus formation, fistula or bony sequestra formation. A 28-year-old woman presented with swelling on the left side of her mandible. On the basis of clinical, radiological and histological findings, primary ...

Osteomyelitis is a challenging disease for clinicians and patients despite the many advances in diagnosis and treatment. Chronic suppurative osteomyelitis (CSO) of the mandible is often considered difficult to treat. Several authors conclude that CSO can be treated successfully by a combination of intravenous antimicrobial therapy and surgery consisting of sequestrectomy or decortication, the r...

OBJECTIVE To determine the baseline pattern and audit management modalities of chronic osteomyelitis in patients with sickle cell disease. DESIGN A retrospective study. SETTING Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria from August 1993 to July 1997. PATIENTS Twenty four patients with concomitant chronic sickle cell disease. INTERVENTIONS Fifteen patients had operations; eleven had ...

BACKGROUND Although only a few studies have shown the effectiveness, hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy has been used as an adjunct in the management of chronic osteomyelitis in many hospitals in Taiwan. This retrospective study investigated the clinical results of HBO therapy for chronic refractory osteomyelitis of the femur. METHODS From December 1999 through May 2002, 13 patients with chronic...

The term secondary sclerosing cholangitis (SSC) represents a spectrum of variably progressive cholestatic diseases of the intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic biliary system. Numerous different causes for the development of SSC have been described: toxic, infectious, immunological, ischemic, and chronic obstructive [1, 2]. In our review we will focus only on ‘sclerosing cholangitis in critically il...

Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare pathology with only a few described cases in the literature. The etiology is unclear; however, several potential triggers, including abdominal surgery and abdominal trauma, have been discussed. The pathology includes a benign acute or chronic inflammatory process affecting the adipose tissue of the mesenterium. Despite it being a rare disease, sclerosing mesent...

Background: Chronic Osteomyelitis is a debilitated disease and characterized by persistent prolonged infection of the bone its management remained an increasing challenge to clinicians due growing resistances antibiotics.
 Objective: The proposed study was conducted ascertain antibiotic sensitivity pattern bacterial isolates in chronic osteomyelitis patients.
 Materials methods: This ...