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Record W4395697275 · doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2024.e01977

An unusual case of Brodie’s abscess in the humerus of an adult female

2024· article· en· W4395697275 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIDCases · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicOrthopedic Infections and Treatments
Canadian institutionsUniversity of CalgaryAlberta Health Services
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineAbscessMetaphysisSurgeryOsteomyelitisDebridement (dental)BiopsyRadiology

Abstract

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Brodie's abscess is a manifestation of subacute to chronic osteomyelitis, characterized as intraosseous abscess formation, usually on the metaphysis of the long tubular bones in the lower extremities of male pediatric patients. Clinically, Brodie's abscess presents with atraumatic bone pain of an insidious onset, with absence of systemic findings. Delay in diagnosis is common, as diagnostic imaging, followed by biopsy for culture and histologic examination are generally required to secure a diagnosis of Brodie's abscess. Treatment of Brodie's abscess is non-standardized, and usually consists of surgical debridement and antibacterial therapy. Despite the variability in therapeutic approaches, outcomes of Brodie's abscess treated with surgery and antibiotics are favourable. Herein we report a case of a delayed diagnosis of Brodie's abscess in the upper extremity of an adult female. While she improved with treatment of Brodie's abscess, the case serves to remind clinicians to consider this entity in adult individuals who present with atraumatic bone pain.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.269
Threshold uncertainty score0.582

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.347 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it