Osteomyelitis of the Patella in a 10-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

The incidence of osteomyelitis constantly declines. While the disease most commonly affects the long bones, involvement of the patella is rarely seen. Due to this rarity and the variable clinical presentation, diagnosis is often delayed. The present case report describes a 10-year-old female patient...

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Autores principales: Sperl, Matthias, Novak, Michael, Sperl, Daniela, Svehlik, Martin, Singer, Georg, Kraus, Tanja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28484657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6573271
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author Sperl, Matthias
Novak, Michael
Sperl, Daniela
Svehlik, Martin
Singer, Georg
Kraus, Tanja
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description The incidence of osteomyelitis constantly declines. While the disease most commonly affects the long bones, involvement of the patella is rarely seen. Due to this rarity and the variable clinical presentation, diagnosis is often delayed. The present case report describes a 10-year-old female patient with a delayed diagnosis of patella osteomyelitis. The diagnostic procedures and the treatment regimen are described. Additionally, a detailed literature review of the available publications reporting osteomyelitis of the patella in children is presented.
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spelling pubmed-54121392017-05-08 Osteomyelitis of the Patella in a 10-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Sperl, Matthias Novak, Michael Sperl, Daniela Svehlik, Martin Singer, Georg Kraus, Tanja Case Rep Orthop Case Report The incidence of osteomyelitis constantly declines. While the disease most commonly affects the long bones, involvement of the patella is rarely seen. Due to this rarity and the variable clinical presentation, diagnosis is often delayed. The present case report describes a 10-year-old female patient with a delayed diagnosis of patella osteomyelitis. The diagnostic procedures and the treatment regimen are described. Additionally, a detailed literature review of the available publications reporting osteomyelitis of the patella in children is presented. Hindawi 2017 2017-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5412139/ /pubmed/28484657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6573271 Text en Copyright © 2017 Matthias Sperl et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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