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369761

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-5-23
pubmed:abstractText
Two patients originally diagnosed as having cellulitis involving the dorsum of the foot actually had bacterial arthritis of an underlying joint. In both patients, even after pyarthrosis was suspected, the wrong joint was aspirated. The arthropathies were located by subsequent 99mTc-phosphate bone imaging at a time when roentgenograms were normal. Early diagnosis and aggressive therapy of septic arthritis are essential to prevent joint destruction and osteomyelitis. Radionuclide bone imaging can identify inflammatory joint disease but it cannot specify etiology. In our patients, however, the differential diagnosis was between skin and joint infection. Radionuclide imaging was of great help in making this distinction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0363-9762
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
79-81
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
Septic arthritis mimicking cellulitis: distinction using radionuclide bone imaging.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports