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Images in emergency medicine
Obturator internus pyomyositis
  1. G Duthie1,
  2. C Corry2,
  3. F Munro1,
  4. J Robb3
  1. 1Department of Paediatric Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
  2. 2Department of Radiology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
  3. 3Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to Gillian Duthie, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, 9 Sciennes Road, Edinburgh EH9 1LF, UK; gduth01{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2008.071167

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