استئومیلیت
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Osteomyelitis (OM) is the infectious inflammation of bone. It may be acute or chronic and can be classified as hematogenous or non-hematogenous. It is commonly caused by bacterial infection, but rarely can be due to fungal infection.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Osteomyelitis
- Medical condition.synonym
- Bone infection
- Medical condition.image
- OsteomylitisMark.png
- Medical condition.caption
- Osteomyelitis of the 1st toe
- Medical condition.field
- Infectious disease, orthopedics
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Pain in a specific bone, overlying redness, fever, weakness
- Medical condition.complications
- Amputation
- Medical condition.onset
- Young or old
- Medical condition.duration
- Short or long term
- Medical condition.causes
- Bacterial, fungal
- Medical condition.risks
- Diabetes, intravenous drug use, prior removal of the spleen, trauma to the area
- Medical condition.diagnosis
- Blood tests, medical imaging, bone biopsy
- Medical condition.differential
- Charcot's joint, rheumatoid arthritis, infectious arthritis, giant cell tumor, cellulitis
- Medical condition.treatment
- Antimicrobials, surgery
- Medical condition.prognosis
- Low risk of death with treatment
- Medical condition.frequency
- 2.4 per 100,000 per year
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
38,807 papers- Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2025
- Microbiology of Acute and Chronic Osteomyelitis and Antibiotic Treatment.Dental clinics of North America · 2017
- Osteomyelitis.The New England journal of medicine · 1997
- Osteomyelitis.The Journal of trauma · 2007
- Osteomyelitis in adolescents.Adolescent medicine: state of the art reviews · 2007
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
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- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002754
- health specialty
- podiatry
- ICD-9-CM
- 730.10
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- Commons category
- Osteomyelitis
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C27577
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