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Ultrasound in tropical pyomyositis

✍ Scribed by Luca Belli; Alberto Reggiori; Eugenio Cocozza; Luciano Riboldi

Publisher
Springer
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
661 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0364-2348

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✦ Synopsis

Tropical pyomyositis is an infection of muscles mainly presenting in black people, occurring in the trunk and limbs. At Hoima Hospital, Uganda, 58 patients (30 men and 28 women) with a mean age of 21 years have been investigated by ultrasound; a total of 81 lesions were present. Two different characteristic images were found; abscess was present in 65 cases while 16 patients showed a diffuse infiltration among the muscular fibers. These two different images correspond to the two stages of histologic and clinical progression described by other authors. Ultrasound is useful to demonstrate the progression of pyomyositis and to determine when and where to drain any abscess.

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