Case Reports
Fulminant Spread of a Femur Anaerobic Osteomyelitis to Abdomen in a 17-Year-Old Boy
Am J Orthop. 2012 February;41(2):84-86
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Hamid Reza Yazdi, MD, Mehdi Ramezan Shirazi, MD, Mohammad Ghorban Hoseini, MD, and Zahra Masdari, MD
Dr. Yazdi is Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Dr. Shirazi, Dr. Ghorban Hoseini, and Dr. Masdari are Orthopaedic Surgery Residents, Shafa Rehabilitation Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran.
To our knowledge, distant spread of infection in anaerobic osteomyelitis has not been described before. In this article, we report a case of anaerobic osteomyelitis of femur with fulminant spread of infection to the abdomen in a 17-year-old boy with no predisposing medical factors and minimal bone involvement.