Brodie abscess of the femoral capital epiphysis in a 2-year-old child caused by Kingella kingae

George Jm Hourston; Hadyn Kn Kankam; Piers D Mitchell; Mark David Latimer

doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-217663

Brodie abscess of the femoral capital epiphysis in a 2-year-old child caused by Kingella kingae

BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Apr 20:2017:bcr2016217663. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2016-217663.

Authors

George Jm Hourston^{1

2}, Hadyn Kn Kankam^{1

2}, Piers D Mitchell³, Mark David Latimer^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ University of Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK.
² Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
³ Department of Orthopaedics, Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals, Peterborough, UK.
⁴ Department of Orthopaedics, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

We report the case of a Brodie abscess of the femoral capital epiphysis from which Kingella kingae was isolated. This is to the best of our knowledge the first report of a Brodie abscess of the femoral capital epiphysis from which K. kingae was isolated.

2017 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Abscess / microbiology
Abscess / surgery
Child, Preschool
Epiphyses / diagnostic imaging
Epiphyses / microbiology*
Femur / diagnostic imaging
Femur / microbiology*
Femur / surgery
Humans
Kingella kingae / isolation & purification*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Neisseriaceae Infections / diagnostic imaging*
Neisseriaceae Infections / surgery
Treatment Outcome