Osteomyelitis in long bones

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2305-2318

  Lazzarini, Luca ^a   Mader, Jon T ^c   Calhoun, Jason H ^b  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC CEMENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FUSIDIC ACID; GALLIUM CITRATE; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; LEUKOCYTE IN 111; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TECHNETIUM 99M; TOBRAMYCIN; TROVAFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE DEFECT; BONE GRAFT; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; BRUCELLA; CANCELLOUS BONE; CENTRIFUGATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG SPECIFICITY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEMATOGENOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRRITABILITY; JOINT INSTABILITY; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; LONG BONE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUSCLE FLAP; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SPOROTRICHOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TENDON DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 5344259620     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200410000-00028     Document Type: Review

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