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 ...

Brodie abscesses commonly form in the epiphyseal region and, when they involve the growth plate, late complications such as ...

Background: Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is the most severe form of chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis. In children and adolescents, chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis ...

INDIVIDUAL case reports 1–12 of salmonella osteomyelitis in patients with sickle-cell anemia have appeared in the literature since 1925. In 1951 Hodges and Holt 13 cited 5 cases of Salmonella ...

As an Infectious Disease physician, I see many patients with osteomyelitis, or infection of the bone. It’s a common infection especially in patients with diabetes, poor circulation, and following ...

A team of researchers led by RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), have developed a new treatment for the particularly difficult-to-treat bone infection, osteomyelitis. Funded by Irish Research ...

Our study, involving 61 immunocompentent patients with primary vertebral osteomyelitis, illustrates that switching to an oral antibiotic regimen after 2 weeks of intravenous therapy may be safe, ...

Back pain is suffered by 2.5 million people in the UK every day of the year. According to research by the Office of National Statistics released in March, there were 30.8 million days lost to ...