Needle Puncture and Transcutaneous Bone Biopsy Cultures Are Inconsistent in Patients with Diabetes and Suspected Osteomyelitis of the Foot - Concepedia

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Needle Puncture and Transcutaneous Bone Biopsy Cultures Are Inconsistent in Patients with Diabetes and Suspected Osteomyelitis of the Foot

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2009

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Éric Senneville, Hélène Morant, Dominique Descamps, S. Dekeyser, E. Beltrand, Bruno Singer, Michèle Caillaux, A. Boulogne, L. Legout, X. Lemaire,

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Abstract

Our results suggest that needle punctures, compared with transcutaneous bone biopsies, do not identify bone bacteria reliably in patients with diabetes who have low-grade infection of the foot and suspected osteomyelitis.

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