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This case report presents an uncommon long-term complication of external fixator application to distal radius fracture. Despite an initial uneventful fracture healing, the patient presented with Brodie's abscess with Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis at the previous pin site 17 years later. A diagnosis of late-onset osteomyelitis, as a manifestation of quiescence chronic osteomyelitis, was made.
Keywords distal radius fracture - complications - osteomyelitis - negative-pressure wound therapy - skin graftAll procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. Animals were not used in this study.
No consent was required for this case report. All identifying characteristics have been altered to protect anonymity. Alterations to the figures do not distort the scientific meaning.
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