The treatment, complications, and late results of acute hæmatogenous osteomyelitis based on a study of 500 cases admitted to the london hospital during the years 1919–37
✍ Scribed by E. C. B. Butler
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1940
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 752 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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✦ Synopsis
THIS review includes 500 cases of acute hiematogenous osteomyelitis admitted to the London Hospital during the years 1919-37 inclusive. All the bones of the skeleton are included except those of the skull, vertebrie, and phalanges.
Incidence.-Acute osteomyelitis is a diminishing disease in the East End of London. Between the years 1919 and 1928 344 cases were admitted, whereas from 1929 to 1937 there were only 156 admissions. This fall is commonly attributed to the better health and home conditions which now prevail, no other cause having as yet been found.
In this series the usual predominance of boys (67 per cent) to girls (33 per cent) was maintained, the higher incidence in males being attributed to their more adventurous life and to their greater exposure to trauma. Table I shows in detail the numbers occurring in each decade, together with the mortality. Age 0-g * Based on a Hunterian Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons on January 26, ~~