ArticleCureus2026
Delayed Presentation of Pediatric Chronic Osteomyelitis of the Radius Following Cellulitis and a Prolonged Asymptomatic Period: A Case Report.
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Pediatric cases of chronic osteomyelitis that remain asymptomatic for a prolonged period before becoming clinically evident are exceedingly rare. We report a rare case of pediatric chronic osteomyelitis of the left radius, which became clinically evident 1.5 years after an episode of left forearm cellulitis at the same anatomical site in a three-year-nine-month-old girl. The patient presented with fever, left wrist pain, and difficulty in flexing her left fingers. Plain radiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed osteolytic lesions spanning the distal radial metaphysis and epiphyseal nucleus across the epiphyseal line, consistent with a chronic disease course. She underwent emergency surgical debridement and lavage of the radius. Blood culture results revealed methicillin-susceptible
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