Osteomielitis esternoclavicular, tratamiento local y sistémico. Reporte de caso.

Abstract

Case report of an infrequent disease, approximately 1% of septic arthritis are sternoclavicular, with little response to intravenous antibiotic therapy, requiring ag-gressive surgical management, the following case narrates the excellent response with the use of calcium sulfate pearls impregnated with antibiotics, existing in the literature only cases reports on its use.

Keywords

• sternoclavicular osteomielitis; calcium sulfate pearls.