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Abstract
Musculoskeletal infections are commonly encountered in clinical practice. This review will discuss the ultrasound appearances of a variety of musculoskeletal infections such as cellulitis, infective tenosynovitis, pyomyositis, soft-tissue abscesses, septic arthritis, acute and chronic osteomyelitis, and post-operative infection. The peculiar sonographic features of less common musculoskeletal infections, such as necrotizing fasciitis, and rice body formation in atypical mycobacterial tenosynovitis, and bursitis will also be presented.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15664569 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2004.02.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Radiol ISSN: 0009-9260 Impact factor: 2.350