Historically, bone and joint infections have been described in grim terms. Aids to Surgery, written in 1919, notes that “acute infective osteomyelitis ... is a very fatal disease.” With septic arthritis, “the patient becomes exhausted from toxaemia or pyemia,” and “ankylosis is the usual most favourable termination.” Advances in diagnostic methods, antibiotic therapy, and surgical techniques ha...

Since Batson ( 1940) drew attention to the paravertebral system of veins there have been a number of reports of cases of spinal osteomyelitis attributed to the spread of infection by venous route from the pelvis (Deming and Zaff 1942; Donohue 1949; Myrhe 1949; Hurwitz and Albertson 1950; Alderman and Duff 1952; Romanus 1953; Wood 1954; Mussey 1954; DeFeo 1954; Leigh. Kelly and Weens 1955; Henso...

Severe neurological deficit (SND) is a rare but major complication of pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (PVO). We aimed to determine the risk factors and the variables associated with clinical improvement for SND during PVO.This case-control study included patients without PVO-associated SND enrolled in a prospective randomized antibiotic duration study, and patients with PVO-associated SND mana...

OBJECTIVES To describe a large series of patients with vertebral osteomyelitis (VO), and to compare the clinical, biological, radiological, and prognostic features of pyogenic (PVO), tuberculous (TVO), and brucellar vertebral osteomyelitis (BVO). METHODS A retrospective multicentre study, which included 219 adult patients with VO with confirmed aetiology, who were diagnosed between 1983 and 1...

Study Design Retrospective cohort study. Objective To evaluate whether the proposed one-stage biopsy, culture, debridement, and reconstruction with stabilization strategy is a viable option for pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (PVO). PVO is increasing in frequency globally, particularly in immunologically compromised individuals. Typically, biopsy and culture sensitivity followed by staged surg...

Background: Rib osteomyelitis is a very rare form of pediatric osteomyelitis. Case report: Herein, we reported a very rare case of chest wall abscess with rib osteomyelitis and rib destruction due to Staphylococcus aureus infection in a 14-day-old preterm male neonate. The diagnosis of this uncommon disease requires a high index of suspicion due to its rarity and non-specific clinical presenta...

2.1 Summary ............................................... 5 2.2 Definition .............................................. 6 2.3 History ................................................... 6 2.4 Overview of Currently Used Classification Systems and Terminology 7 2.5 Currently Used Terms in Classification of Osteomyelitis of the Jaws .................. 11 2.5.1 Acute/Subacute Osteomyelitis .......

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Vertebral osteomyelitis (OM) is a rare bone infection of the spine commonly caused by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). OM usually affects long bones. Although hematogenous spread with extension into epidural space and associated high mortality rates complications. We describe case Escherichia coli (E. coli) uroseps...

The pyogenic granuloma is a clinical entity which originates as an overexuberant connective tissue response to a stimulus or injury.^ Trauma and local irritation have a significant impact on the development of the pyogenic granuloma. This lesion is particularly important to dentists because of its common intraoral occurrence and sometimes alarming clinical course. The pyogenic granuloma is seen...