Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis: Case Report of a Rare Disease in Children

Abstract

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis is a rare inflammatory disease of the bone with unknown cause, affecting primarily children and adolescents. It is typically characterized by multifocal and symmetric inflammatory bone lesions, with exacerbations and remissions along the disease course. We present a case of a fourteen-month-old girl with the diagnosis of chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis. The girl was initially misdiagnosed as chronic infectious osteomyelitis, and treated with prolonged antibiotic therapy.