Twenty-month-old patient with distal humerus fracture and concomitant septic arthritis

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-133

  Beach, Heather D ^a   Valeron, Nestor ^a   Linares, Marc Yves Rene ^a  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Posttraumatic septic arthritis; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; JOINT CAVITY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POSTTRAUMATIC ARTHROPATHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EMERGENCIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IRRIGATION; MALE; OXAZOLIDINONES; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; REOPERATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPURATION;

EID: 76949109332     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181ce306a     Document Type: Article

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