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Surgical Management of an Osteomyelitis Associated Subchondral Bone Defect in the Pediatric Knee Based on Arthroscopy, “Ossoscopy” and Bone Grafting—A Case Report

Subchondral bone defects around the knee joint are uncommon in skeletally immature patients. These lesions require comprehensive management, especially if related to periarticular bacterial infections. While pediatric osteomyelitis typically affects the metaphysis of long bones, the epiphysis is als...

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Autores principales: Weber, Christian D., Migliorini, Filippo, Delbrück, Heide, Hildebrand, Frank
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9692245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36362908
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life12111754
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author Weber, Christian D.
Migliorini, Filippo
Delbrück, Heide
Hildebrand, Frank
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description Subchondral bone defects around the knee joint are uncommon in skeletally immature patients. These lesions require comprehensive management, especially if related to periarticular bacterial infections. While pediatric osteomyelitis typically affects the metaphysis of long bones, the epiphysis is also a potential site for pyogenic osteomyelitis. Long-term sequelae may include growth plate injury and articular cartilage degradation. Primary epiphyseal subacute osteomyelitis is an extremely rare condition, mainly affecting neonates or young infants, as the cartilage of the growth plate generally acts as a barrier for pathogens. Radiographically, the lesions may appear radiolucent or lytic and often demonstrate a substantial perilesional bone marrow edema in MRI studies, but do not primarily contact the articular surface. However, if diagnosis and treatment of epiphyseal infections are delayed or missed, abscess formation may spread into the knee joint and progress to septic arthritis. Approaching a distal femoral epiphyseal lesion or subsequent bone defect surgically may be limited anatomically by both the subchondral plate and articular cartilage on the distal side and the growth plate proximally. Of the few reported cases of epiphyseal osteomyelitis, most underwent non-operative treatment including antibiotic coverage, or (staged) aggressive surgical care involving open curettage, irrigation and bone grafting. We report a novel combination of arthroscopic techniques, namely “ossoscopy”, bone grafting and antibiotics, to approach a large lateral femoral epiphyseal lesion with knee involvement. In this case report, we present a 5-year old male patient with subacute posttraumatic knee pain and a significant bone defect of the lateral femoral epiphysis related to pyogenic osteomyelitis. The knee joint and periarticular bone lesion were both debrided and irrigated based on arthroscopic and ossoscopic techniques.The osseous lesion was filled with bone graft. The single-stage procedure proved to be a viable treatment to restore both the large subchondral bone defect and full knee function. Over a course of two years, no recurrent symptoms, infection or growth disturbances were observed in the individual.
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spelling pubmed-96922452022-11-26 Surgical Management of an Osteomyelitis Associated Subchondral Bone Defect in the Pediatric Knee Based on Arthroscopy, “Ossoscopy” and Bone Grafting—A Case Report Weber, Christian D. Migliorini, Filippo Delbrück, Heide Hildebrand, Frank Life (Basel) Case Report Subchondral bone defects around the knee joint are uncommon in skeletally immature patients. These lesions require comprehensive management, especially if related to periarticular bacterial infections. While pediatric osteomyelitis typically affects the metaphysis of long bones, the epiphysis is also a potential site for pyogenic osteomyelitis. Long-term sequelae may include growth plate injury and articular cartilage degradation. Primary epiphyseal subacute osteomyelitis is an extremely rare condition, mainly affecting neonates or young infants, as the cartilage of the growth plate generally acts as a barrier for pathogens. Radiographically, the lesions may appear radiolucent or lytic and often demonstrate a substantial perilesional bone marrow edema in MRI studies, but do not primarily contact the articular surface. However, if diagnosis and treatment of epiphyseal infections are delayed or missed, abscess formation may spread into the knee joint and progress to septic arthritis. Approaching a distal femoral epiphyseal lesion or subsequent bone defect surgically may be limited anatomically by both the subchondral plate and articular cartilage on the distal side and the growth plate proximally. Of the few reported cases of epiphyseal osteomyelitis, most underwent non-operative treatment including antibiotic coverage, or (staged) aggressive surgical care involving open curettage, irrigation and bone grafting. We report a novel combination of arthroscopic techniques, namely “ossoscopy”, bone grafting and antibiotics, to approach a large lateral femoral epiphyseal lesion with knee involvement. In this case report, we present a 5-year old male patient with subacute posttraumatic knee pain and a significant bone defect of the lateral femoral epiphysis related to pyogenic osteomyelitis. The knee joint and periarticular bone lesion were both debrided and irrigated based on arthroscopic and ossoscopic techniques.The osseous lesion was filled with bone graft. The single-stage procedure proved to be a viable treatment to restore both the large subchondral bone defect and full knee function. Over a course of two years, no recurrent symptoms, infection or growth disturbances were observed in the individual. MDPI 2022-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9692245/ /pubmed/36362908 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life12111754 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Delbrück, Heide
Hildebrand, Frank
Surgical Management of an Osteomyelitis Associated Subchondral Bone Defect in the Pediatric Knee Based on Arthroscopy, “Ossoscopy” and Bone Grafting—A Case Report
title Surgical Management of an Osteomyelitis Associated Subchondral Bone Defect in the Pediatric Knee Based on Arthroscopy, “Ossoscopy” and Bone Grafting—A Case Report
title_full Surgical Management of an Osteomyelitis Associated Subchondral Bone Defect in the Pediatric Knee Based on Arthroscopy, “Ossoscopy” and Bone Grafting—A Case Report
title_fullStr Surgical Management of an Osteomyelitis Associated Subchondral Bone Defect in the Pediatric Knee Based on Arthroscopy, “Ossoscopy” and Bone Grafting—A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Surgical Management of an Osteomyelitis Associated Subchondral Bone Defect in the Pediatric Knee Based on Arthroscopy, “Ossoscopy” and Bone Grafting—A Case Report
title_short Surgical Management of an Osteomyelitis Associated Subchondral Bone Defect in the Pediatric Knee Based on Arthroscopy, “Ossoscopy” and Bone Grafting—A Case Report
title_sort surgical management of an osteomyelitis associated subchondral bone defect in the pediatric knee based on arthroscopy, “ossoscopy” and bone grafting—a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9692245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36362908
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life12111754
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