1 Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics in Radiology, Edward Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, 510 South Kingshighway, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
In the article on pseudomonas osteomyelitis, which appeared in Pediatrics for March, 1971,1 Figure 2 shows a lytic lesion at the base of the fourth metatarsal taken 2 days prior to admission. Figure 3 is stated to be taken 4 days later and this showed obvious diffuse demineralization with frank destruction of the fourth and fifth proximal metatarsals. It is a littie difficult for me to believe that this destruction occurred in 4 days. I wonder if the radiograph shown in Figure 3 was actually taken between the fourteenth to twentieth days.