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Rombouts-Godin V, Malghem J, Rombouts JJ, et al. Infection par voie hématogène d'une fracture vertébrale fermée: A propos d'un cas et revue de la littérature. [Infection by the hematogenic route of closed vertebral fracture: apropos of a case and review of the literature]. Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot. 1990;76(8):591-7
Rombouts-Godin, V., Malghem, J., Rombouts, J. J., Van de Wyngaert, F., & Huaux, J. P. (1990). Infection par voie hématogène d'une fracture vertébrale fermée: A propos d'un cas et revue de la littérature. [Infection by the hematogenic route of closed vertebral fracture: apropos of a case and review of the literature]. Revue de chirurgie orthopedique et reparatrice de l'appareil moteur, 76(8), 591-7.
Rombouts-Godin, V, et al. "Infection par voie hématogène d'une fracture vertébrale fermée: A propos d'un cas et revue de la littérature." [Infection by the hematogenic route of closed vertebral fracture: apropos of a case and review of the literature]. Revue de chirurgie orthopedique et reparatrice de l'appareil moteur vol. 76,8 (1990): 591-7.
Rombouts-Godin V, Malghem J, Rombouts JJ, Van de Wyngaert F, Huaux JP. Infection par voie hématogène d'une fracture vertébrale fermée: A propos d'un cas et revue de la littérature. [Infection by the hematogenic route of closed vertebral fracture: apropos of a case and review of the literature]. Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot. 1990;76(8):591-7. French. PMID: 2151482.
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Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot. 1990;76(8):591-7.

[Infection by the hematogenic route of closed vertebral fracture: apropos of a case and review of the literature].

Revue de chirurgie orthopedique et reparatrice de l'appareil moteur

[Article in French]
V Rombouts-Godin, J Malghem, J J Rombouts, F Van de Wyngaert, J P Huaux

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  1. Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgique.

PMID: 2151482

Abstract

We report a new case of haematogenous infection at the site of a spinal fracture. The patient developed a severe bronchopneumonial infection. After the trauma three weeks later he developed a severe but incomplete cord lesion due to acute vertebral osteomyelitis. The patient was treated with antibiotics. He made a slow, but uneventful and complete neurological recovery. 28 instances of osteomyelitis after fracture of which seven involved vertebral bones have been previously reported. The spontaneous appearance of haematogenous osteomyelitis in a fractured bone is a rare but not exceptional event.

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