Osteomyelitis and septic arthritis in children: Current concepts

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 58-63

  Dodwell, Emily R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotics; MRI; osteomyelitis; septic arthritis; steroids

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTHROSCOPIC DEBRIDEMENT; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION RATE; JOINT ASPIRATION; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT SWELLING; KINGELLA KINGAE; LABORATORY TEST; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL HISTORY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEROID THERAPY; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BACTERIAL LOAD; CHILD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS;

EID: 84873099161     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32835c2b42     Document Type: Review

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