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Review
. 2002 Jul;63(7):401-7.
doi: 10.12968/hosp.2002.63.7.1983.

Management of acute and chronic osteomyelitis

Pinak S Ray  1 , Robert B Simonis
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Review

Management of acute and chronic osteomyelitis

Pinak S Ray et al. Hosp Med. 2002 Jul.

Abstract

The incidence of acute and subacute osteomyelitis is declining. Vaccination has almost eradicated Haemophilus bone infection in infants. However, chronic traumatic osteomyelitis is becoming more frequent following an increase in motorcycle accidents and infected internal fixation of fractures. There are now effective means of treating this using the Ilizarov external circular frame.

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