Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of bone marrow that begins as a bacterial infection and can cause significant bone damage. The condition tends to progress to an area surrounding the bone known as the ...

Osteomyelitis and septic arthritis are two types of infections usually caused by bacteria that affect your musculoskeletal system. Septic arthritis is an infection of the lining and fluid of one or ...

Osteomyelitis is an infection and inflammation of the bone. It can happen when a bacterial or fungal infection enters a bone from the bloodstream or surrounding tissue. A person may have pain, ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Bacteria may reach bone through direct inoculation from traumatic wounds, by spreading from adjacent tissue affected by cellulitis or septic arthritis, or through hematogenous seeding. In children, an ...

The study authors note that osteomyelitis, bacterial infection of bone, causes approximately 1% of all pediatric hospitalizations. Current recommendations are that pediatric patients with ...

Osteomyelitis is an infection in your bone. Osteomyelitis in your foot or ankle often develops because you have a wound on your foot that isn’t healing. You can develop osteomyelitis even if you can’t ...

An 11-year-old boy presented with a 4-month history of swelling in the left knee joint. He had a knee injury 4 months earlier, which had required a puncture. The wound was crusted and healed.

An athletic 23 year old man presented with suprapubic tenderness, fever, and raised inflammatory blood variables. A diagnostic laparoscopy was performed, with a presumed diagnosis of retrocaecal ...

Osteomyelitis is the term used to describe an infection of the bone or bone marrow. Osteomyelitis is usually caused by bacterial infection but can also occur as the result of injury or another ...