Lesson of the week: Osteomyelitis in the well looking afebrile child

British Medical Journal

Volumn 324, Issue 7350, 2002, Pages 1380-1381

  Ferguson, L P ^a   Beattie, T F ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUCLOXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; METAPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIBIA;

EID: 0037042641     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1380     Document Type: Short Survey

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