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Yuanjiao Tang1, Meng Zhu, Li Qiu
1Department of Ultrasound, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Journal of Clinical Ultrasound : JCU
|December 5, 2013
Abstract:
We report a rare case of a 5-year-old patient with a toothpick in the knee joint resulting in septic arthritis. The toothpick was detected in the joint by sonography and was confirmed at surgery. A wooden foreign body is an uncommon cause of arthritis. This case report is followed by a discussion of the value of sonography in the diagnosis of wooden foreign-body arthritis.

