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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 101-B, Issue SUPP_14 | Pages 40 - 40
1 Dec 2019
Traore SY Yacaria C Amadou I Coulibaly Y
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Objectives

Our objectives were to describe the therapeutic aspects and assess the prognosis of chronic osteomyelitis in children.

Materials and methods

We made a retrospective study from January 2007 to December 2016. The study concerned children from 0 to15 years, treated for chronic osteomyelitis and monitored in the pediatric surgery department of the teaching hospital Gabriel Toure, Bamako (Mali). The other types of bone infections, osteitis and bone tumors were not included in the study.

In 10 years we received and treated 215 children with chronic osteomyelitis. This represented 3.56% of all the hospitalizations. The mean age was 8.8 (± 6.67) years with extremes of 28 days and 15 years. The patients were first seen by the traditional healer in 165 (76.7%) cases. The sex ratio was 1.26. The major clinical feature was local swelling associated with pain in 110 cases (51.2%). In 135 cases (62.8%) the staphylococcus aureus was found in direct examination or culture. After a year we performed a functional and morphological assessment according to the method of DIMEGLIO.