Case report 662
| Autor: | Joseph D. Zuckerman, Hubert A. Sissons, Margaret A. Nuovo |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Intravenous drug business.industry Avascular necrosis Suppurative Arthritis medicine.disease Surgery Femoral head medicine.anatomical_structure Joint pain Chronic alcoholism medicine Femur head necrosis Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Femur medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Skeletal Radiology. 20 |
| ISSN: | 1432-2161 0364-2348 |
| Popis: | We present a case of suppurative arthritis occurring in a patient with bilateral osteonecrosis of the femoral head. Predisposing factors were chronic alcoholism (osteonecrosis) and septicemia due to intravenous drug abuse (suppurative arthritis). Although the association of suppurative arthritis and osteonecrosis is rarely reported in the literature, the prevalence of osteonecrosis and of various factors predisposing to the development of suppurative arthritis should remind us of the possibility that a patient with osteonecrosis who develops sudden worsening of joint pain or fever may have developed suppurative arthritis of the affected joint, particularly when there is evidence of bone destruction. |
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