BONE-GROWTH DISTURBANCE FOLLOWING SEPTICE MIA - A CASE-REPORT

In the course of bacterial septicemia and meningoencephalitis a 10 mon ths old girl developed osteomyelitis in the distal epimetaphysis of th e right tibia, at first clinically unnoticed, which subsequently cause d a premature fusion of a substantial part of the physis. Following th is physeal arrest a shortening of the right leg, oblique pelvis and ba d posture could be observed. Only the increasing angulation of the tal us led to the X-ray of the right tibia and the result pointed to a cau sal relation between the septicemia in infancy and the leg shortening. Discussion: An unilateral growth disturbance of a leg can be the resu lt of a septicemia many years ago.