[X-ray diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome in acute hematogenous osteomyelitis in children].

Objective: to analyze the x-ray signs of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in children with the septicopyemic form of acute hematogenous osteomyelitis (AHO) for the first time, by using the authors' material.

Methods: X-ray study of respiratory organs was conducted in 221 children with AHO.

Subjects And Basic Results: ARDS had a rather characteristic x-ray pattern that permitted a differential diagnosis of this condition and another abnormality, that with septic pneumonia in particular.