Prospective, Randomized Trial of 10 Days versus 30 Days of Antimicrobial Treatment, Including a Short‐Term Course of Parenteral Therapy, for Childhood Septic Arthritis
Clinical Infectious Diseases2009Vol. 48(9), pp. 1201–1210
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Heikki Peltola, Markus Pääkkönen, Pentti Kallio, Markku Kallio, Osteomyelitis–Septic Arthritis (OM‐SA) Study Group
Abstract
Background. The standard treatment for septic arthritis in children is antimicrobials for several weeks (initially administered intravenously) and arthrotomy (at least for the hip and shoulder joints). No sufficiently powered study has examined the true need for these treatments.
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