Smallpox osteomyelitis (osteomyelitis variolosa) with gross clinical and radiologic deformities of the elbows, hands and feet occurred in a 53-year-old Vietnamese refugee. This disease, once common in Asia and Africa, may cause permanent damage to joints and growth centers in the course of the acute infection in childhood. The roentgenographic features are sufficiently diagnostic to exclude congenital dysplasia of the skeletal system, leprosy, or sequelae of thermal injury, and other joint disorders.
BT - Clinical orthopaedics and related research C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/509817?dopt=Abstract DA - 1979 Sep IS - 143 J2 - Clin. Orthop. Relat. Res. LA - eng N2 -Smallpox osteomyelitis (osteomyelitis variolosa) with gross clinical and radiologic deformities of the elbows, hands and feet occurred in a 53-year-old Vietnamese refugee. This disease, once common in Asia and Africa, may cause permanent damage to joints and growth centers in the course of the acute infection in childhood. The roentgenographic features are sufficiently diagnostic to exclude congenital dysplasia of the skeletal system, leprosy, or sequelae of thermal injury, and other joint disorders.
PY - 1979 SP - 155 EP - 7 T2 - Clinical orthopaedics and related research TI - Osseous deformity from osteomyelitis variolosa. A case report. SN - 0009-921X ER -