PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - O Osinowo
AU  - O A Adebo
AU  - A O Okubanjo
TI  - Osteomyelitis of the ribs in Ibadan.
AID  - 10.1136/thx.41.1.58
DP  - 1986 Jan 01
TA  - Thorax
PG  - 58--60
VI  - 41
IP  - 1
4099  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/41/1/58.short
4100  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/41/1/58.full
SO  - Thorax1986 Jan 01; 41
AB  - Sixteen patients with pyogenic osteomyelitis of the ribs are reported; ages ranged from 3 months to 42 years and 10 were female. Right sided ribs were affected in 10 cases and single ribs in 12. Antecedent causes included empyema thoracis (56%) and blunt chest trauma (19%). Fourteen out of 16 patients presented with discharging chest wall sinuses and five patients had associated swellings on the chest wall. The duration of symptoms ranged from two to 36 months. The most common microorganism isolated was Staphylococcus aureus (50%). Rib excision (with drainage of the empyema in two cases) was curative in all 16 cases in this study.