Severe infantile wrist empyema due to dental bacteremia

2012/01/01 by Felix Stang, Peter L. Stollwerck, Stang, Felix +7
Medicine · #610 Medical sciences #Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis #Medicine #Orthopedic Infections and Treatments #Otolaryngology and Infectious Diseases #childhood #dental bacteremia #wrist empyema

paper · doi:10.3205/000160

openalex publication_date 2012/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/19

Abstract

Pediatric wrist empyema are very rare, this is the first case report in the current literature describing a hematogenic spreading of bacteria from dental caries, leading to a severe wrist empyema.

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