CME review article: Differentiating osteomyelitis from bone infarction in sickle cell disease

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 60-63

  Wong, Alison L ^a,b   Sakamoto, Kathleen M ^a,b   Johnson, Eric E ^a,b  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone infarction; Osteomyelitis; Radiographic studies; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE INFECTION; BONE PAIN; BONE SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; HUMAN; INFARCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SERRATIA; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ACUTE DISEASE; BONE; DECISION TREE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; VASCULARIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE AND BONES; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; INFARCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035106369     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006565-200102000-00018     Document Type: Review

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