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Tibial Stress Fracture Simulate Osteomyelitic Foci in the Course of Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis
Vojko Rožmanić
; University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, University Hospital Center Rijeka, Clinic for Pediatrics, Rijeka, Croatia
Gordana Zamolo
; University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, University Hospital Center Rijeka, Department of Pathology, Rijeka, Croatia
Gordan Gulan
; University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery Lovran, Lovran, Croatia
Iva Bilić
; University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, University Hospital Center Rijeka, Clinic for Pediatrics, Rijeka, Croatia
Zdravko Jotanović
; University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery Lovran, Lovran, Croatia
Abstract
Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is an extremely rare and most severe form of chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis of unknown etiology. Here we present the first case of a six-year-old girl in which was observed that the stress fracture mimic osteomyelitic foci in the course of CRMO.
Keywords
chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis; bone lesions; negative microbiological cultures; stress fracture
Hrčak ID:
118397
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Publication date:
30.12.2013.
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