[Pseudotumoral subacute osteomyelitis: a series of 41 children].
OBJECTIVE
To confirm that subacute osteomyelitis in children is a real entity, and give the main characteristics of this disease


METHODS
We reviewed 41 cases as well as the litterature.


RESULTS
Pain without fever was the only constant symptom. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was increased slightly. XRays were the most important investigation, showing a geode in the metaphysis or more rarely in the epiphysis evoking a benign bone tumor in a child.


CONCLUSIONS
The treatment was most often surgical: scraping permits the isolation of the microbe in 50 per cent of cases (staphylococcus most often) and usualy leady to recovery.


CONCLUSIONS
This form of osteomyelitis is relatively frequent and must be discussed in front of a cystic tumoral image of the child's long bone.
Chau
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Service de chirurgie pédiatrique (Pavillon Tbis), Hôpital E. Herriot, 69437 Lyon Cedex 03.
Kohler
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Cottalorda
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Rosenberg
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Bouvier
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D000293:Adolescent; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy