Treatment of acute salmonella epiphyseal osteomyelitis using computed tomography-guided drainage in a child without sickle cell disease.

Salmonella osteomyelitis occurs infrequently in children without sickle cell disease. Similarly, acute osteomyelitis of the epiphysis has been rarely reported. We present a case of primary epiphyseal osteomyelitis caused by Salmonella in the distal femur of an otherwise healthy 17-month-old child.