Neonatal Cervical Osteomyelitis With Bilateral Upper Limb Paresis.

Elad Ben-Meir1, Marina Rubinshtein, Itai Pessach

  • 1From the *Department of Pediatrics A, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; †Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ‡Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, §Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, ¶Department of Radiology, Sheba Medical Center, and ‖Department of Neurosurgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.

Summary

Neonatal cervical osteomyelitis, a rare condition, can cause severe complications. This case highlights extensive inflammation leading to nerve compression and upper limb weakness in a newborn.

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