Journal of Tropical Pediatrics Advance Access originally published online on May 31, 2005
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 2005 51(4):250-251; doi:10.1093/tropej/fmh090
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Brucellae osteoarthritis on the Head of the Femur
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21 Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Department of Pediatrics, 06018 Etlik-Ankara, Turkey, 2 Marshal Cakmak Military Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Erzurum, Turkey
Dr Süleyman Kalman, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Department of Pediatrics, 06018 Etlik-Ankara, Turkey. E-mail <suleymankalman{at}yahoo.com>.
We present an 11-year-old boy with Brucellae osteoarthritis on caput femoris. We therefore emphasize the importance of Brucellae osteoarthritis and in particular bone scintigraphy in the diagnosis of childhood monoarthritis.