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Pyomyositis in adults: a 12 year review
L M Yusufu1, S Y Sabo, P T Nmadu
1Department of Surgery, ABU Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria.
Tropical Doctor
|July 11, 2001
Abstract:
From January 1988 to December 1999, 43 adults with pyomyositis were managed at Ahmadu Bello UniversityTeaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria. Staphylococcus aureuswas the most commonly cultured organism (92.5%). All the 41 patients responded well to incision and adequate drainage, antibiotics and partial thickness skin grafting in 10 patients (23.2%).Two patients (4.65%) died from septicaemia, while being resuscitated.