Clinical Study of Acute Osteomyelitis in Children / 대한정형외과학회잡지

ABSTRACT

The treatment of acute osteomyelitis has been much improved with the development of better antibiotics, but still a number of problems have remained unsolved. To find out possible problems in our method of management and to help resolve these problems, a clinical study was done of 34 cases of acute childhood osteomyelitis treated from August 1980 to January 1985. The results were as follows 1. Bone scan helps diagnosis and localization of this disease; blood culture is significant in the selection of relevant antibiotics by sensitivity test. 2. All the causative organisms cultured were staphylococcus aureus which showed 100% sensitivity to cephalosporin and 100% resistant to penicillin methicillin was not much effective compared with other reports. 3. 22 cases were trcated with decompression operation and 12 cases with conservative method: surgery is considered to be better method of treatment in the viewpoints of clinical process and complications.