Abstract
:A 70 years old man was referred to our center with bilateral knee arthritis following intra-articular petrol injection. Because of previous antibiotics use gram stain and culture were negative. Septic arthritis was diagnosed and antibiotics and drainage were started. After 2 years he improved eventually and was able to walk. But, some movement limitation remained.
Highlights
Septic arthritis is a joint infection with various bacterial, fungal and mycobacterial causes
Intra-articular injection of drugs for treatment of inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint disease can result in septic arthritis
In this study we report the first case of petrolinduced knee septic arthritis
Summary
Alireza Janbakhsh a,*, Feizollah Mansouri a , Siavash Vaziri a, Babak Sayad a, Mandana Afsharian a Parviz Ghaffari b a Department of Infectious Disease, Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah, Iran. b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah, Iran.
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