Subacute osteomyelitis of the femur due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in a 7-year-old boy.
Subacute hematogenous osteomyelitis is an insidious infection, which commonly has a delayed diagnosis. We describe the case of a 7-year-old boy with subacute osteomyelitis, which was initially considered to be a bone tumor. Infection should be considered in all cases of bone pain, especially in children, even in the absence of typical systemic features of inflammation.
From the *Department of Pediatrics, BC Children's Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; †Department of Orthopaedics, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, SK2 7JE, United Kingdom; ‡Division of Microbiology, Virology and Infection Control, Department of Pathology, Children's and Women's Health Centre of BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and §Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Emily
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Budd
David S
DS
Johnson
Eva
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Thomas
Manish
M
Sadarangani
D002648:Child; D005269:Femur / Q000382:microbiology*; D005674:Fusobacterium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D016967:Fusobacterium nucleatum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome