Acute Osteomyelitis of the Patella 50 Years After a Knee Fusion for Septic Arthritis
- 1 November 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
- Vol. 272 (272) , 205???207-207
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003086-199111000-00030
Abstract
Nontraumatic, hematogenous osteomyelitis of an unfused patella occurred in a 62-year-old female patient, 50 years after septic arthritis of the knee was treated in childhood by femorotibial fusion. This extremely rare condition was successfully treated by a patellectomy, continuous irrigation, and antibiotics. This occurrence seems not to have been reported previously in English literature.Keywords
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