[55 years of osteomyelitis (author's transl)]

This study deals with the problem of osteomyelitis by presenting 875 patients treated at Goettingen University, Department of Surgery between 1924 and 1978, with particular emphasis on methods of treatment, frequency of recurrences and change in pathogenic organisms which had become more apparent within the past decades. There was 555 haemotogenic cases, 320 of post-traumatic origin.