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Curr Med Imaging
January 2025
Department of Radiology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, China.
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the morphology and distribution characteristics of fat globules in osteomyelitis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Materials And Methods: Patients with pathologically-confirmed osteomyelitis and MRI scans were retrospectively enrolled, and fat globules on the MRI images were analyzed.
Results: Among 103 patients with non-traumatic osteomyelitis, 75 were fat globule negative and 28 were positive.
J Am Acad Orthop Surg
January 2025
From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (Yeager, Rutz, Strother, Spitler, and Johnson), and the Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (Gross, Benson, and Carter).
Introduction: Postoperative infections are a leading cause of morbidity following fracture repair. The purpose of this study is to develop a risk score predicting fracture-related infection (FRI) that will require one versus multiple revision surgeries related to infection eradication and bone healing.
Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study conducted at a single level I trauma center from 2013 to 2020.
J Orthop Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Introduction: Chronic wounds pose a significant burden on patients' physical and mental well-being and significantly raise health-care costs.
Case Report: We report healing with VG111 application alone in a case of chronic wound in a patient who sustained a shell injury to the heel 35 years prior in 1988. Despite conventional wound care and multiple surgeries, the wound persisted.
JBJS Case Connect
January 2025
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Case: We present a case of isolated tuberculous osteomyelitis of the calcaneus in an immune-competent adult patient with a 5-year follow-up. The diagnosis was established by core needle aspiration and biopsy. He was treated with antituberculous chemotherapy and immobilization.
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November 2024
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, JPN.
Few neonatal cases of soft tissue and osteoarticular infections with have been reported. We report a rare clinical presentation of necrotizing fasciitis of the foot caused by in a 17-day-old male neonate with hypoplastic left-sided heart syndrome. Fulminant progressive black skin necrosis was triggered by fresh frozen plasma leakage from the peripheral venous access.
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