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Osteomyelitis is an acute or chronic inflammatory process of the bone and its structures secondary to infection with pyogenic organisms. The term osteomyelitis has become more or less restricted to the haematogenous type and has lately been replaced by the term osteitis, because not only the osteomyelon is affected but always all elements of the bone are involved. It is a very expensive disease for patient and society because of the involved costs of diagnosis, inpatient and out-patient treatment, rehabilitation, lost productivity and sequelae [1]. Bone and joint infections are difficult to cure [2]. This difficulty is related to the presence of bacteria adherent to dead bone and foreign material in many cases and also to drug resistance and limited distribution of antibiotics into infected bone.
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Horch, R.E. (2004). Osteomyelitis. In: Téot, L., Banwell, P.E., Ziegler, U.E. (eds) Surgery in Wounds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59307-9_26
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