PEDIATRICS Vol. 48 No. 4 October 1971, pp. 672-673
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Pseudomonas Osteomyelitis: Puncture Wounds of the Feet

Donald J. Hagler 1

1 LT MC USNR, Department of Pediatrics, Naval Hospital, Port Hueneme, California 93041

The recent report1 of pseudomonas osteomyelitis following puncture wound of the foot raises the question of why this rarely reported,

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but clinically recognized phenomenon occurs.* I would like to report an additional case which demonstrates similar evidence for the etiology.

S.S., an 8-year-old Caucasian male, presented at this hospital with a several–day history of swelling and tenderness of the site of a nail puncture wound in the plantar aspect of the foot, approximately in the second metacarpal phalangeal area (Fig. 1).




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Clinical Presentation and Management of Pseudomonas Osteomyelitis
Clinical Pediatrics, October 1, 1985; 24(10): 566 - 570.
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