Gummatous Osteitis of the Skull

Gummatous osteitis of the skull.

A single man aged 65 years was referred to the Department of Venereology in 1949 on account of extensive necrosis of the skull and gangrene of the right foot. The precipitating factor was an obnoxious smell, attributed to a blocked drain, which was reported by some of his neighbours to the local Sanitary Authority. Through the Medical Officer of Health, the patient was eventually compelled to a...

Chronic proliferative osteitis of the skull.

Case 1.-This patient was a man of 42 years. Twentyone years before, a left posterior frontal abscess had appeared spontaneously under the scalp. The abscess ruptured after three weeks, and thereafter a chronic sinus discharged intermittently. Local surgical exploration was undertaken on three occasions at long intervals, at the latest of which, bone an inch thick was chiselled away, releasing s...

Tuberculous osteitis of the skull in a child.

Tuberculosis is endemic in developing countries. However, skull tuberculosis is uncommon with few cases reported in the literature. We report a 10-year-old boy admitted for a left parietal painless swelling. A CT scan demonstrated a left parietal bony defect, destroying both inner and outer tables. This was associated with an enhanced epidural collection and scalp swelling. The patient was oper...

Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis presenting as osteitis skull and atlantoaxial dislocation.

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...