Diagnostic approach and arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee, in an infant

A 9‐month‐old baby presented with sudden inability to stand and unable to move his leg. Clinical examination showed edema and knee effusion. Blood tests and MRI confirmed septic knee arthritis without bone involvement. He was treated with arthroscopic lavage. He had a complete recovery and normal gr...

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Autores principales: Laliotis, Nikolaos, Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos, Konstandinidis, Panagiotis, Giannakopoulou, Lambrini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7752424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33363939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3382
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author Laliotis, Nikolaos
Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos
Konstandinidis, Panagiotis
Giannakopoulou, Lambrini
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description A 9‐month‐old baby presented with sudden inability to stand and unable to move his leg. Clinical examination showed edema and knee effusion. Blood tests and MRI confirmed septic knee arthritis without bone involvement. He was treated with arthroscopic lavage. He had a complete recovery and normal growth.
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spelling pubmed-77524242020-12-23 Diagnostic approach and arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee, in an infant Laliotis, Nikolaos Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos Konstandinidis, Panagiotis Giannakopoulou, Lambrini Clin Case Rep Case Reports A 9‐month‐old baby presented with sudden inability to stand and unable to move his leg. Clinical examination showed edema and knee effusion. Blood tests and MRI confirmed septic knee arthritis without bone involvement. He was treated with arthroscopic lavage. He had a complete recovery and normal growth. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7752424/ /pubmed/33363939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3382 Text en © 2020 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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Laliotis, Nikolaos
Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos
Konstandinidis, Panagiotis
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title Diagnostic approach and arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee, in an infant
title_full Diagnostic approach and arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee, in an infant
title_fullStr Diagnostic approach and arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee, in an infant
title_full_unstemmed Diagnostic approach and arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee, in an infant
title_short Diagnostic approach and arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee, in an infant
title_sort diagnostic approach and arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee, in an infant
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7752424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33363939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3382
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