EARLY ROENTGEN OBSERVATIONS IN ACUTE OSTEOMYELITIS
| Autor: | Marie A. Capitanio, John A. Kirkpatrick |
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| Rok vydání: | 1970 |
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Time Factors Soft tissue swelling Radiography Metaphysis symbols.namesake Edema Humans Medicine Knee Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Child Leg business.industry Acute osteomyelitis Osteomyelitis Soft tissue Roentgen Exudates and Transudates General Medicine Anatomy Staphylococcal Infections Wrist medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Child Preschool Acute Disease symbols Female Ankle medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Roentgenology. 108:488-496 |
| ISSN: | 1546-3141 0361-803X |
| DOI: | 10.2214/ajr.108.3.488 |
| Popis: | The roentgen examination can be very helpful in making the early diagnosis of osteomyelitis. Within the first 3 days after the onset of symptoms, soft tissue changes are visible roentgenographically. A local deep soft tissue swelling adjacent to the metaphysis of a growing bone without superficial edema should alert the radiologist to the possibility of osteomyelitis. The diagnosis is almost certain if there is also local tenderness clinically. Several days after the onset of symptoms, swelling of the deep muscles and obliteration of the lucent planes between the muscles are visible roentgenographically, even though the enlargement of the deep muscles may not be appreciated clinically. In order to appreciate the soft tissue changes that occur early in osteomyelitis it is most important that the normal as well as the abnormal side be examined roentgenographically. |
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