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Review
. 2022 Dec 19:10:1043251.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.1043251. eCollection 2022.

Surgery's role in contemporary osteoarticular infection management

Giacomo De Marco  1 , Oscar Vazquez  1 , Nathaly Gavira  1 , Ardian Ramadani  1 , Christina Steiger  1 , Romain Dayer  1 , Dimitri Ceroni  1
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Surgery's role in contemporary osteoarticular infection management

Giacomo De Marco et al. Front Pediatr. .

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Abstract

The treatment paradigm for osteoarticular infections (OAIs) has changed drastically over the past 80 years, from the advent of penicillin to the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics. Before these drugs, surgery was the only available treatment for OAIs; today, antibiotic therapy is considered the primary response to them. As a result, surgical treatment of OAIs is thus far more rarely indicated, sometimes even considered outdated and obsolete. However, long experience has taught us that many OAI contexts can still benefit from surgical management, constituting an essential complement to medical treatment. The present article seeks to contextualize this discussion by providing a chronological review of the surgical treatments used in cases of OAI and describing the quality of evidence supporting their rehabilitation in well-established situations.

Keywords: abscess; drainage; infection; management; necrotic; osteoarticular; punction; surgery.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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