GLAUCOMA SECONDARY TO FIBROCYSTIC DISEASE OF BONE

Elmslie and Fibrocystic Disease of Bone

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Fibrocystic Disease of the Frontal Bone (paget's Osteitis).

Intractable seizures and metabolic bone disease secondary to celiac disease.

Celiac disease (CD) is Gluten sensitive enteropathy with a wide spectrum of severity and protean clinical manifestations. Patients with atypical (non-diarrhoeal) presentations are missed as the diagnosis of Celiac Disease is not considered. We present three young girls (ages 18, 19, 23 at presentation) who were admitted to our hospital as intractable seizures. All had low serum calcium, feature...

[Secondary glaucoma].

Our study of 1,254 patients with uveitis disclosed that nearly 10% had glaucoma as an additional visionrobbing feature of their disease, adding yet another dimension to the difficulties already posed by the inflammatory insult to the macula. Our data were similar to prior reports of the prevalence of glaucoma associated with selected specific uveitic entities.2-12 The prevalence has been especi...

Management of Bone Pain Secondary to Metastatic Disease.

Metastatic involvement of the bone is one of the most common causes of pain in cancer patients. Of the estimated 1.4 million patients who will be newly diagnosed with cancer in the United States this year, 30% to 70% will develop skeletal metastases.2,3 The most common primary malignancies that metastasize to the bone are breast, kidney, lung, and prostate (Table 1). The most common sites of me...