Case Report 662. Bilateral Avascular Necrosis of Femur, with Supervening Suppurative Arthritis of Right Hip

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Journal Skeletal Radiol

Specialties Orthopedics
Radiology

Date 1991 Jan 1

PMID 2057798

Citations 1

Authors

M A Nuovo

H A Sissons

J D Zuckerman

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Abstract

We present a case of suppurative arthritis occurring in a patient with bilateral osteonecrosis of the femoral head. Predisposing factors were chronic alcoholism (osteonecrosis) and septicemia due to intravenous drug abuse (suppurative arthritis). Although the association of suppurative arthritis and osteonecrosis is rarely reported in the literature, the prevalence of osteonecrosis and of various factors predisposing to the development of suppurative arthritis should remind us of the possibility that a patient with osteonecrosis who develops sudden worsening of joint pain or fever may have developed suppurative arthritis of the affected joint, particularly when there is evidence of bone destruction.

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