Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis in a 9-year-old Boy

  Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is a rare aseptic, auto-inflammatory bone disorder. CRMO presents with bone pain with or without fever. The diagnosis of CRMO is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be included in the differential diagnosis of chronic inflammatory bone lesions in children. Cultures of the bone are typically sterile, antibiotic therapy does not result in clinic...

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis: 17 case reports and literature review

Results CRMO primarily affects girls with a mean age at onset of 8.5 years and a mean time to diagnosis of 8.5 months. Most patients were diagnosed in less than 1 month, but 2 cases presented a delay due to atypical presentation. At onset, 14 patients had inflammatory pain and 6 local swelling and fever. The lower limbs were predominantly affected, followed by the axial skeleton, the upper limb...

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis.

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis is an autoinflammatory disorder characterized by bone pain and fever, a course of exacerbations and remissions, and a frequent association with other inflammatory conditions. Because its etiology is largely unknown, the diagnosis is still based on clinical criteria; treatment is empiric and not always successful. The diagnosis is supported by the prese...

chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis: a case report

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis; manifestation, imaging and diagnosis

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is an inflammatory bone disease usually affecting children. A 9-year old boy presented with recurrent lower extremities pain and discomfort lasting for two years. In every time, symptoms vanished after several weeks. The patient received antibiotics only in one period of bone pain. In other occasions the patient didn’t received any antibiotics. ...