introduction tuberculosis of the foot is an unusual type of skeletal tuberculosis. case presentation we report on an eighty-six-year-old woman, who presented pain and purulent discharge from the right foot for 10 months. the final diagnosis was confirmed with a culture of mycobacterium tuberculosis. discussion diagnosis of this form of tuberculosis is established with some delay due to the unco...

Chronic osteomyelitis continues to be a serious clinical problem. For example, despite antibiotic treatment, chronic osteomyelitis has been observed to develop in 15 to 29 percent of patients with acute hematogenous osteomyelitis (1, 2). Chronic osteomyelitis has been noted to develop with greater frequency in patients with osteomyelitis secondary to postoperative infection, i.e., particularly ...

Osteomyelitis was relatively common before the era of antibiotic therapy. Today osteomyelitis of facial bones is a rare condition. Maxillary osteomyelitis is rare compared to mandible osteomyelitis because extensive blood supply & strut like bone of the maxilla make it less prone to chronic infection. We report a rare case of Osteomyelitis involving whole of the Maxilla in a 50 year old male pa...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this review is to illustrate the imaging findings of childhood osteomyelitis. The diagnosis of childhood osteomyelitis can be challenging. Clinical presentation and laboratory results can differ and are relatively unreliable. To date, its role in the assessment of treatment efficacy is not yet clear. METHODS This review article provides an overview of the different i...

Vertebral infections are a group of diseases such as spondylitis, discitis, vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess due to various microorganisms. Vertebral osteomyelitis comprises 2-7% of all pyogenic osteomyelitis and manifests a serious disease with an incidence rate varying between 1/100 000 to 1/250 000. The most common pathogens in vertebral osteomyelitis are S. aureus and coagulase ...

Mycobacterium ulcerans disease, or Buruli ulcer (BU), causes significant morbidity in West Africa. Clinically, the disease presents in the skin as either nonulcerative or ulcerative forms and often invades bones either subjacent to the skin lesion (contiguous osteomyelitis) or remote from the skin lesion (metastatic osteomyelitis). Osteomyelitis represents a severe form of the disease that ofte...

Chronic osteomyelitis is uncommon in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Current migration trends with an influx of people from less affluent nations may result in more cases of chronic osteomyelitis being seen in community and hospital practice. We report on a case of chronic osteomyelitis of the radius and document current treatment recommendations.

osteomyelitis is an inflammatory infectious condition of bones, occurring either acutely or chronically. the clinical course of the disease leads to destructive or sclerosing patterns of the involved bone. this report presents a case of chronic focal sclerosing osteomyelitis in a 19-year-old male with a history of an uncontrolled convulsive condition. the lesion was first diagnosed as an osteob...

Case report Osteomyelitis of left Maxillary Region due to Mucor Infection Ramesh G, Raj A, Pathak S, Mishra S Abstract: In routine practice, intra-oral exposed bone due to necrosis is generally diagnosed as osteomyelitis. This kind of necrosis can occur due to bacterial osteomyelitis, herpes zoster, trauma, iatrogenic infections, or fungal infections, such as mucormycosis, aspergillosis, etc. I...

In 30 patients in whom osteomyelitis was suspected fine-needle bone biopsies (FNBB) were taken at the same time as bone was aspirated for bacteriological examination. The diagnosis of osteomyelitis was eventually confirmed in 15 patients; the other 15 had myositis (3), arthritis (3), trauma (2), microgeodic phalangeal syndrome (2), haematoma in a non-ossifying fibroma (1), and Ewing's sarcoma (...