Bone of contention: Diagnosing diabetic foot osteomyelitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 528-530

  Lipsky, Benjamin A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VA Puget Sound   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

BONE INFECTION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ARTHROPATHY, NEUROGENIC; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 48749108893     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590012     Document Type: Note

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