Septic hip presenting with dislocation as a source of occult infection in a burn patient

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 749-752

  Kim, Anne ^a   Palmieri, Tina L ^a,b   Greenhalgh, David G ^a,b   O'Mara, Michael Shay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROTOMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURN PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; HIP DISLOCATION; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURNS; CHILD; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HIP DISLOCATION; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; IRRIGATION; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SEPSIS; TETRACYCLINE; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION;

EID: 33748997360     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BCR.0000238089.83330.63     Document Type: Article

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