Ankle and foot osteomyelitis: Treatment protocol and clinical results

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-293

  Malizos, Konstantinos N ^a   Gougoulias, Nikolaos E ^a   Dailiana, Zoe H ^a   Varitimidis, Sokratis ^a   Bargiotas, Konstantinos A ^a   Paridis, Dionysios ^a  

^a School of Health Sciences   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ankle; Foot; Osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ANKLE ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; FOOT DISEASE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INFECTION; KNEE AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE INJURIES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIABETIC FOOT; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FOOT INJURIES; FRACTURES, BONE; FUSIDIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEOMYELITIS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REOPERATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77049087362     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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