A treatment strategy for complex cases of osteomyelitis in children and its applicability on three exemplary cases

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 432-435

  Baumbach, Sebastian F ^a   Hobohm, Lukas ^a   Wozasek, Gerald E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

distraction osteogenesis; external fixators; osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BONE CEMENT; REFOBACINPALACOSA CEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BONE DEBRIDEMENT; BONE INFECTION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCINTIGRAPHY; TIBIA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE CEMENTS; CHILD; DEBRIDEMENT; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FEMUR; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOTOMY; TIBIA;

EID: 80053586210     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: 14735865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPB.0b013e3283458846     Document Type: Article

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