Abstract
Nine patients with pyogenic arthritis of the knee were treated by closed irrigation and arthrotomy.The patients average age was 66 years (range, eight to eightyfour years). The infecting organism was staphylococcus aureus in four, staphylococcus cohnii in one, staphylococcus haemolyticus, staphylococcus intermedius in one and unknown in two.At an average follow-up of eight months (range, two to twenty-four months), one patient had a good result, seven a fair result and one had died of multiple organ failure.It was very important that accidental infection should be prevented following intra-articular steroid injection.
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