Case of the month: "Bugs are eating my soul" - Sternal abscess, osteomyelitis, and mediastinitis complicating a closed sternal fracture

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 736-737

  Randell, Paul A ^a,b   Somers, L ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER INJURY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MEDIASTINITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748634956     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.038000     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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