[The diagnosis and treatment of acute hematogenous osteomyelitis in children]

A clinical analysis of the diagnostics and treatment of 329 children with acute hematogenic osteomyelitis (AHO) has shown that the coloured liquid crystal thermography allows determination of the localization and spread of the inflammatory process in the bone, control of treatment efficiency, prognosis of the course and outcome of the disease. The use of the continuous-intermittent lavage of the bone with an enzyme-antibiotic mixture modified in the clinic in complex with a general treatment gives an improvement of the general condition 4-5 days earlier as compared with the traditional treatment, the disease taking the chronic form in 7.6% of the cases only.