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Complications

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Fatalities are rare in the age of antibiotics, however, morbidity is common especially if treatment is delayed or the organism is exceptionally virulent.

Complications include:

  • metastatic infection: spread may be to bones, joints, serous cavities, brain or lung
  • suppurative arthritis
  • altered bone growth:
    • damage to the growth plate may cause shortening or deformity
    • physeal hyperaemia may rarely result in an abnormally long bone
  • chronic osteomyelitis

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