Osteomyelitis...

... is the bane of the consult service existence. Well, along with the entire Family Medicine service, most of surgery, the impossibly perky OB-Gyn residents... but I digress. But osteo pretty much sucks. The question comes up pretty often, how do we best diagnose osteomyelitis, especially in the diabetic foot patients? This question was answered I think pretty comprehensively in the August 15, 2008 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. You can read it here, through UNC:

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/doi/full/10.1086/590011

and the little editorial blurb that followed it is here:

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/doi/full/10.1086/590012

– Christopher Hurt