Items tagged “osteomyelitis”

Brodie abscess is an intraosseous abscess related to a focus of subacute or chronic pyogenic osteomyelitis. Unfortunately, there is no reliable way to radiographically exclude a focus of osteomyelitis. It has a protean radiographic appearance and can occur at any location and in a patient of any...

Osteomyelitis (plural: osteomyelitides) refers to infection of bone involving the medullary cavity that is typically bacterial 21. This article primarily deals with pyogenic osteomyelitis, which may be acute or chronic.  Other non-pyogenic causes of osteomyelitis are discussed separately: fung...