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Clinical features

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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The patient will have a history of osteomyelitis, and will present with:

  • recurrent pain, pyrexia, redness and swelling
  • reopening of the sinus

The overlying tissues are often thickened and puckered where they are tethered to the bone.

Any discharge is foul and seropurulent.

There may be excoriation of surrounding skin.

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