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Pre-operative x-ray of lower tibia and ankle showing chronic osteomyelitis with cyst formation.
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The fracture and soft tissues later healed but he developed chronic osteomyelitis of the lower tibia (with MRSA) requiring long term antibiotic treatment with flucloxacillin (one gram orally six hourly) and dicloxacillin (one gram orally six hourly). (Fig 1).