Bilateral knee septic arthritis: Was it from sternal wound?

Polyarticular septic arthritis is a rare but life‐threatening condition and should not be underestimated. Clinicians should look for potential source of infection, either local spread or hematogenous distribution. However, this should not delay the main treatment for septic arthritis.

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Autor principal: Chong, Han Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1727
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spelling pubmed-61321072018-09-13 Bilateral knee septic arthritis: Was it from sternal wound? Chong, Han Hong Clin Case Rep Case Reports Polyarticular septic arthritis is a rare but life‐threatening condition and should not be underestimated. Clinicians should look for potential source of infection, either local spread or hematogenous distribution. However, this should not delay the main treatment for septic arthritis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6132107/ /pubmed/30214759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1727 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bilateral knee septic arthritis: Was it from sternal wound?
title Bilateral knee septic arthritis: Was it from sternal wound?
title_full Bilateral knee septic arthritis: Was it from sternal wound?
title_fullStr Bilateral knee septic arthritis: Was it from sternal wound?
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral knee septic arthritis: Was it from sternal wound?
title_short Bilateral knee septic arthritis: Was it from sternal wound?
title_sort bilateral knee septic arthritis: was it from sternal wound?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1727
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