Osteomyelitis: The Past Decade

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Abstract
THE high success rate observed with antibiotic therapy in most bacterial diseases contrasts with the substantial failure rate in the treatment of bone infections. This discrepancy can be partly accounted for by a variety of specific problems pertaining to the diagnosis and treatment of this type of infection, discussed in the Journal 10 years ago.1 Since then, continued interest in osteomyelitis has provided new insight into its pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy; it is our aim to put this new information into perspective. Other, more conventional aspects of osteomyelitis, made familiar by previous studies, will be dealt with more briefly, and . . .