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Irritable hip and campylobacter infection
1Morrison Hospital, Swansea, Wales.
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
Three cases are reported which presented as "irritable" or "observation" hips and failed to respond to rest at home and in hospital. In each case a campylobacter organism was grown from the faeces; none were found in a group of 20 patients in the paediatric ward for other reasons. The patients responded to a course of erythromycin. It is postulated that they may have had a reactive arthropathy of the hip and suggested that cultures for Campylobacter be made as part of the investigation of irritable hip.