IDCases (Jan 2015)

Osteomyelitis of sternum and rib after breast prosthesis implantation: A rare or underestimated infection?

  • Piseth Seng,
  • Antoine Alliez,
  • Estelle Honnorat,
  • Amelie Menard,
  • Dominique Casanova,
  • Andreas Stein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2014.12.004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 31 – 33

Abstract

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Sternum and rib osteomyelitis complicated from breast implant infection is rare. We report a case of early sternum and rib osteomyelitis occurred during breast implant infection managed in an inter-regional referral center for bone/joint infections in the south of France.

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