BACKGROUND Prognosis of chronic osteomyelitis depends heavily on proper identification and treatment of the bone-infecting organism. Current knowledge on selecting the best specimen for culture is confusing, and many consider that non-bone specimens are suitable to replace bone cultures. This paper compares the microbiology of non-bone specimens with bone cultures, taking the last as the diagno...

Chronic posttraumatic osteomyelitis is a difficult-to-cure disease of the musculoskeletal system. The relationship between course and presence type 2 diabetes mellitus has been revealed. It necessary to predict time remission after initial diagnosis in this concomitant pathology. paper includes data on rehabilitation outcome 57 patients with Ciery-Mader 3A (group 1) 3B 2) osteomyelitis. Type wa...

Introduction Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is an autoinflammatory bone disorder that manifests as recurrent flares of inflammatory bone pain, related to one or more foci of nonbacterial osteomyelitis. Patients may present with low grade fever and modest elevation of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP) and white blood cell counts (WBC). We descr...

Older adults are predisposed to osteomyelitis either because of an increased incidence of associated disorders (e.g., peripheral vascular disease, diabetes mellitus, malnutrition and poor dentition) or because of surgical procedures that are frequently performed in the elderly population (e.g., dental extractions, open-heart surgery, and prosthetic joint replacement or osteosynthesis). Two type...

The term osteomyelitis encompasses a broad group of infectious diseases characterized by infection of the bone and/or bone marrow. The pathogenesis of these diseases can follow acute, subacute or chronic courses and involves a range of contributory host and pathogen factors. A commonly used aetiological classification distinguishes between three types of osteomyelitis: acute or chronic haematog...

BACKGROUND Pyogenic bacteria and especially Staphylococcus aurous (S. aurous) are the most common cause of chronic osteomyelitis. Not only treatment protocol of chronic osteomyelitis occasionally is amiss but also this malady responds to treatment difficultly. OBJECTIVES This study investigates antibiotic resistance pattern of S. aurous isolated from Iranian patients who suffer from chronic o...

HYPOTHESIS After alcohol-induced and hereditary disease, idiopathic chronic pancreatitis is the most common cause of calcifying pancreatitis. This designation is used when no associated cause of chronic pancreatitis is found. We present 6 cases of idiopathic pancreatitis in which the postoperative pathological examination results demonstrated lymphoplasmacytic sclerosing pancreatitis or autoimm...

INTRODUCTION The simultaneous presentation of osteomyelitis in more than one bone is rare and is commonly accompanied by a chronic disease. Even in such cases, other conditions that arise commonly in the long bones of children--such as chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis and Ewing's sarcoma--must be ruled out. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 5-year-old boy with bilateral acu...

Chronic sclerosing sialadenitis typically involves the submandibular gland. It usually occurs in the middle-aged and elderly adults with a slight male predominance. Recent evidences have suggested that it is an entity of IgG4-related sclerosing disease and has distinct histopathological features, such as a dense lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate, sclerosis and obliterative phlebitis. It is important...