A Novel Case of Providencia rettgeri Osteomyelitis Presenting in the Frontal Bone

Osteomyelitis of the skull is a particularly life-threatening condition. Infections are usually at the base of the skull and typically occur following dissemination from another site, such as the external auditory canal. Typical organisms include Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus species. This paper de...

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Autores principales: Grubb, Sydney, Swanner, Keana-Kelley D, Cebollero, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10494552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37700961
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43367
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Swanner, Keana-Kelley D
Cebollero, Carlos
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description Osteomyelitis of the skull is a particularly life-threatening condition. Infections are usually at the base of the skull and typically occur following dissemination from another site, such as the external auditory canal. Typical organisms include Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus species. This paper demonstrates an unusual case of osteomyelitis of the frontoparietal bone, as well as the first published case of Providencia rettgeri causing cranial osteomyelitis in humans.
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spelling pubmed-104945522023-09-12 A Novel Case of Providencia rettgeri Osteomyelitis Presenting in the Frontal Bone Grubb, Sydney Swanner, Keana-Kelley D Cebollero, Carlos Cureus Neurology Osteomyelitis of the skull is a particularly life-threatening condition. Infections are usually at the base of the skull and typically occur following dissemination from another site, such as the external auditory canal. Typical organisms include Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus species. This paper demonstrates an unusual case of osteomyelitis of the frontoparietal bone, as well as the first published case of Providencia rettgeri causing cranial osteomyelitis in humans. Cureus 2023-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10494552/ /pubmed/37700961 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43367 Text en Copyright © 2023, Grubb et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Novel Case of Providencia rettgeri Osteomyelitis Presenting in the Frontal Bone
title A Novel Case of Providencia rettgeri Osteomyelitis Presenting in the Frontal Bone
title_full A Novel Case of Providencia rettgeri Osteomyelitis Presenting in the Frontal Bone
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title_full_unstemmed A Novel Case of Providencia rettgeri Osteomyelitis Presenting in the Frontal Bone
title_short A Novel Case of Providencia rettgeri Osteomyelitis Presenting in the Frontal Bone
title_sort novel case of providencia rettgeri osteomyelitis presenting in the frontal bone
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10494552/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43367
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