Acute leg pain with suspected beginning leg compartment syndrome and deep vein thrombosis as differential diagnoses in an unusual presentation of Brodie’s abscess: a case report

BACKGROUND: Brodie’s abscess is an uncommon form of subacute osteomyelitis where the main presenting symptom is mild to moderate pain of insidious onset for several months’ duration. We report a case of a patient presenting with acute leg pain resembling that of a deep vein thrombosis, and a beginni...

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Autores principales: Hammad, Ahmed, Leute, Philip Johannes Felix, Hoffmann, Isabel, Hoppe, Sebastian, Lakemeier, Stefan, Klinger, Hans-Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4689044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26696095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0770-x

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