BRODIE'S ABSCESS OF RADIUS, DUE TO TYPHOID
- 17 October 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 107 (16) , 1284-1286
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1936.02770420022005
Abstract
Typhoid of the bones is one of the unusual types of inflammatory bone diseases. To be more specific, Murphy1states that out of a series of 700 cases of osteomyelitis only three were caused by typhoid. This amounts to 0.43 per cent, or one out of 233 cases. Also osteomyelitis complicating typhoid is not at all common, for in another series of cases of typhoid reported by Murphy there were only 164 cases of osteomyelitis complicating 18,840 cases of typhoid, or 0.82 per cent. So uncommon is this condition that it is not usually suspected unless there is a definite history of typhoid and the constitutional symptoms of the osteomyelitis are unusually mild; even then it is not often thought of until the bacteriologist grows typhoid bacilli from the pus. The various bones of the skeleton vary in their susceptibility to typhoid invasion, and in a different way fromKeywords
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