Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Fever and a progressively limping gait in a 9-year-old boy

  • Your Diagnosis
  • Published:
European Journal of Pediatrics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.

References

  1. Adamski GB, Garin EH, Ballinger WE, Shulman ST (1980) Generalized non-supportive myositis with Staphylococcus septicemia. J Pediatr 96: 694–697

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Birkbeck D, Waston JT (1995) Obturator internus pyomyositis: a case report. Clin Orthop 316: 221–226

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Bonomo RA, Graham R, Mackley JT, Petersilge CA (1995) Tuberculosis pyomyositis: an unusual presentation of disseminated mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Clin Infect Dis 20: 1576–1577

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Chiedozi LC (1979) Pyomyositis: review of 205 cases in 112 patients. Am J Surg 137: 255–259

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Godfroid N, Stalens JP (1995) Thigh pain due to obturator internus phlegmon: a diagnostic challenge. Eur J Pediatr 154: 273–274

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Gurbani SG, Cho CT, Lee KR, Powell L (1995) Gonococcal abscess of the obturator internal muscle: use of new diagnostic tools may eliminate the need for surgical intervention. Clin Infect Dis 20: 1384–1386

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Hakim A, Graven M, Alsaeid K, Ayoub EM (1993) Obturator internus abscess. Pediatr Infect Dis 12: 166–168

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Mazur JM, Ross G, Cummings RJ, Hahn GA, McCluskey WP (1995) Usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of acute musculoskeletal infections in children. J Pediatr Orthop 15: 144–147

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Miyake H (1904) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der sogenannten Myositis Infectosa. Mitt Grenzgeb Med Chir 13: 155–198

    Google Scholar 

  10. Orlicek SL, Abramson JS, Woods CR, Givner LB (2001) Obturator internus muscle abscess in children. J Pediatr Orthop 21: 744–748

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. Papadopoulos M, Chugh S, Fitzgerald R, Thomas RJ (2000) Obturator internus pyomyositis. Orthopedics 23: 383–384

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. Snook ME, Lipuma JJ (1993) Pelvic muscle abscess: an unusual cause of gait disturbance in young children. Clin Pediatr 32: 298–299

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Souid AK, Sadowitz PD, Weiner L, Dubansky AS, Oliphant M (1993) Obturator internus muscle abscess: a case report and review of the literature. Am J Dis Child 47: 1278–1279

    Google Scholar 

  14. Viani RM, Bromberg K, Bradley JS (1999) Obturator internus in children: report of seven cases and review. Clin Infect Dis 28: 117–122

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  15. White BD (1991) Red eyes and red rash with fever: an uncommon initial presentation for staphylococcal obturator abscess with adjacent ischial osteomyelitis. J Am Osteopath Assoc 91: 807–812

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Family Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Hsintien, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan

    Fu-Hsiung Su

  2. Department of Paediatrics, Cardinal Tien Hospital Yeong Ho Branch Hospital, Yeong Ho, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan

    Wen-Chuan Lin

  3. Department of Radiology, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Hsintien, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan

    Ting-Ywan Chou

  4. Department of Paediatrics, Cardinal Tien Hospital, 362 Chung Cheng Road, 23137, Hsintien, Taipei Hsien , Taiwan

    Peir-Taur Chen

Authors
  1. Fu-Hsiung Su
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Wen-Chuan Lin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Ting-Ywan Chou
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Peir-Taur Chen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Peir-Taur Chen.

Additional information

The authors have no connection to any companies or products mentioned in this article.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Su, FH., Lin, WC., Chou, TY. et al. Fever and a progressively limping gait in a 9-year-old boy. Eur J Pediatr 162, 837–839 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-003-1318-4

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-003-1318-4

Keywords

Search

Navigation