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Diagnostic Criteria for the Painful Swollen Pediatric Knee: Distinguishing Septic Arthritis From Aseptic Effusion in a Non-Lyme Endemic Area

Purpose: The child with a painful swollen knee must be worked-up for possible septic arthritis; the classic clinical prediction algorithms for septic arthritis of the hip may not be the best models to apply to the knee. Materials and methods: This was a retrospective case-control study of 17 years o...

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Autores principales: Thomas, Claudia S., Schiffman, Corey J., Faino, Anna, Bompadre, Viviana, Schmale, Gregory A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8591062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34790694
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2021.740285