TY - JOUR
AU - Pringle, Seton
AB - CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS 625 BY SETON PRINGLE. DUBLIN. MOST general surgeons have in recent years been so much interested in abdominal work that there has been a failure, I think, to make as much progress as there should have been in other important, though perhaps less interesting, branches It may be well, therefore, to call attention to one condition, of surgery. chronic non-tuberculous inflammation of bone, in which the present-day manage- ment is much the same as it was thirty or forty years ago. The cases of chronic osteomyelitis which come to the surgeon may be divided roughly into two classes :-(I) Those with one or more sinuses which have been discharging continuously for months or years, ever since an attack of acute osteomyelitis: (2) Cases with recurrent abscess. In the latter class, a patient will usually give a history of an attack of acute inflam- mation many years ago ; the inflammation was followed by suppuration and discharging sinuses which finally cleared up, either with or without an operation, leaving the bone permanently deformed, thickened, and with a lowered resistance. Months or years afterwards, the inflammation lit up again, an abscess formed, and a cavity in the bone was 
TI - Radical operation for chronic osteomyelitis*
JF - British Journal of Surgery
DO - 10.1002/bjs.1800010410
DA - 1913-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/radical-operation-for-chronic-osteomyelitis-a0wpf4sYEN
SP - 625
EP - 631
VL - 1
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -