Abstract
The article analyses results of a retrospective study of 224 patients with chronic osteomyelitis of long bones. The dispensary observation was carried out according to the authors’ system from 2005 to 2010. The influence of such factors as duration the disease, the patients’ age and etiology of osteomyelitis was studied. No statistically reliable difference in the development of the disease relapses depending upon the etiology of the examined pathology was revealed. As a result of the dispensary observation of patients with chronic osteomyelitis it became possible to succeed with reduction in the number of the disease relapses on average by a factor of 37. In patients with relapses of the disease the process was controlled with help of conservative methods of treatment in 81.5 % of cases.
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