introduction: maxillary osteomyelitis is a rare phenomenon. if it occurs, evaluation for underlying disease especially osteopetrosis must be considered. osteomyelitis occurs as a complication in 10% of the cases of osteopetrosis. case report: this is a case report of maxillary osteomyelitis presented in a 15-year old boy with osteopetrosis.  in this case, the disease represented mainly with fac...

Osteomyelitis in newborn infants is a rare infection. Lower extremity joints are commonly affected. Most of the cases have a haematogenous spread. Aerobes are the common group of organism involved, of which Staphylococcus aureus is the commonest. Klebsiella osteomyelitis has been reported as a cause of Osteomyelitis. However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of Klebsi...

INTRODUCTION Carcinomatous degeneration is a rare and late complication developing decades after the diagnosis of chronic osteomyelitis. OBJECTIVES To present the results from a retrospective study of six cases of squamous cell carcinoma arising from chronic osteomyelitis. METHODS Six cases of chronic osteomyelitis related to cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma were identified. The cause and ...

BACKGROUND Treatment and diagnosis of osteomyelitis are still a challenging problem for surgeons, microbiologists and histopathologists. A direct microbiological detection of bacteria in tissues is still gold standard, but it is not always successful for example in chronic osteomyelitis and/or when an antibiotic treatment has already been started or in cases of low virulent bacteria. The goal o...

One of the most serious complications of diabetic foot (DF) is osteomyelitis, and early detection is important. To assess the validity of thermography to screen for osteomyelitis, we investigated thermographic findings in patients with both DF and osteomyelitis. The subjects were 18 diabetic patients with 20 occurrences of DF who visited a dermatology department at a hospital in Tokyo and under...

Osteomyelitis of clavicle is rare in neonates. Acute osteomyelitis of clavicle accounts for less than 3% of all osteomyelitis cases. It may occur due to contiguous spread, due to hematogenous spread, or secondary to subclavian catheterization. Chronic osteomyelitis may occur as a complication of residual adjoining abscess due to methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sepsis. We repo...

skeletal tuberculosis is an unusual disease involving bone and joints and it may have different manifestations. this report introduces a 25-year-old woman suffering from chronic knee pain without any response to conservative treatments for one year. x-ray was normal but ct-scan and mri indicated a small lesion in medial condyle of the femur. the patient underwent percutaneous ct-guided biopsy. ...

introduction: skull-based osteomyelitis is bony infection which generally originates from inadequately treated chronic infection, adjoining tissue infection or after trauma.case: 11 month female child had a trivial fall while standing near a bucket. the child developed fracture of right clavicle and left orbital swelling which was inadequately treated. this resulted in in spread of infection to...

conclusions physicians should consider brucellosis in all patients with low back pain in the brucella endemic regions, and in those with spondylitis or culture-negative ie in the brucella endemic regions. case presentation the current case was a 70-year-old female presented with fever and low back pain. the spinal magnetic resonance imaging (mri) was performed and signal changing in t9, t10 wit...

currently there is little information regarding septic arthritis and osteomyelitis in iran. this retrospective study has been conducted to assess the clinical features and determine the pathogens responsible for septic arthritis and osteomyelitis in patients admitted to our hospital over a 10 year period between 1995 and 2005. a total of 145 cases of septic arthritis and osteomyelitis were stud...