Surgical debridement in long bone chronic osteomyelitis: is wide tumour-like resection necessary?

Mickhael B LangitKae S TayHussain K Al-OmarGavin BarlowJoanna BatesCher B ChuoRoss MuirHemant K Sharma

Published in: Bone & joint open (2023)

We challenge the need for wide tumour-like resection in all cases of COM. Through detailed preoperative evaluation and planning with MDT approach, adequate debridement and local delivery of high concentration of antibiotic appears to provide comparable outcomes versus radical debridement.

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patients undergoing
bone mineral density
adipose tissue
bone loss
insulin resistance
skeletal muscle
weight loss