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By Carl Norden, William J. Gillespie, and Sydney Nade. 438 pp., illustrated. Boston, Blackwell Scientific, 1994. $85. ISBN 0-86542-273-7.

Drs. Norden, Gillespie, and Nade have written what may be the definitive treatise on bone and joint infections. They classify bone and joint infections in the same three groups proposed by Waldvogel et al. in their review of osteomyelitis (Osteomyelitis: Clinical Features, Therapeutic Considerations and Unusual Aspects. By F.A. Waldvogel, G. Medoff, and M.N. Swartz. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1971): hematogenous osteomyelitis, direct infections resulting from traumatic inoculation of bacteria or from local spread of infection from a contiguous source, and infections in patients with diabetes who have neuropathic and vascular complications. In all three types of bone . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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