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[Reactivation of Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis after 49 years]
A Widmer1, G E Barraud, W Zimmerli
1Departement für Innere Medizin, Kantonsspital, Basel.
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift
|January 9, 1988
Abstract:
The treatment of chronic osteomyelitis is laborious and ill defined. We report the case of a 57-year-old woman admitted to hospital with Staphylococcus aureus septicemia due to relapse of osteomyelitis after an interval of 49 years. By surgical debridement, suction drainage and 8 months of high-dose antibiotic treatment we were able to control the infection in terms of clinical symptoms and laboratory parameters.