Acute haematogenous anaerobic osteomyelitis in sickle cell disease: A case report and review of the literature

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-55

  Mansingh, A ^a,b   Ware, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ADULT; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOGENOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MATERIALS HANDLING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROSCOPY; REVIEW; SHOULDER PAIN; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; WOUND HEALING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMERUS; OSTEOMYELITIS;

EID: 0037731449     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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