Atypical mycobacterial granulomatous epiphyseal osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent child

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-154

  Hayek, Shlomo ^a,b   Issakov, Josephine ^a   Ezra, Eli ^a   Wientroub, Shlomo ^a   Yaniv, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atypical mycobacterium; Osteomyelitis; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIPHYSES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; OSTEOMYELITIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344838647     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00009957-200303000-00014     Document Type: Article

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