Osteomyelitis is often difficult to distinguish from a simple ulcer, and radiology is rarely of additional assistance.
Local factors including trauma and surgery (35.1 %) and diabetes mellitus (17.5 %) were the most common underlying condition in skin/soft-tissue infection and osteomyelitis.
Of the 62 cases they studied, 57 developed cellulitis, four necrotizing fasciitis, and one osteomyelitis.
More common problems are osteomyelitis of foot bones, and infections, other than tuberculosis, of vertebrae.
Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogenic micro-organism which can cause skin infections, abscesses, osteomyelitis or other infections.
There is the case of osteomyelitis requiring a caliper splint.
In the first class were staphylococcal infections, which included septicæmia, early acute osteomyelitis, severe carbuncle, cavernous sinus thrombosis or any other life-endangering infection.
However, a couple of days later his doctor found that he was suffering from osteomyelitis— grave infection of the bone—which required his being taken away to the infirmary.
