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  • Title: Acute epiphyseal osteomyelitis in children.
    Author: Rosenbaum DM, Blumhagen JD.
    Journal: Radiology; 1985 Jul; 156(1):89-92. PubMed ID: 3159044.
    Abstract:
    Nine children over 20 months of age had acute osteomyelitis of the epiphysis of a long bone. The clinical features varied, but all of the patients had pain at the infected site and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. The distal femur was involved in seven cases, the proximal tibia in two, and the proximal humerus in one. In two patients there was a contiguous metaphyseal lesion, while the other seven patients (eight sites) had lesions limited to the epiphysis. Bone scintigraphy clearly identified the infected sites in all seven patients in whom it was performed, and allowed an early diagnosis in four cases. Radiographs showed a lytic lesion of the epiphysis that corresponded to the scintigraphic findings in all cases. The vascular supply to the epiphysis and the microscopic structure of the epiphyseal venous sinusoids provide locations that favor lodgement of blood-borne organisms. The epiphysis of the child should be recognized as another site of hematogenous osteomyelitis.
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