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Infantile or malignant osteopetrosis: case report of two siblings.
Infantile or Malignant osteopetrosis is a rare congenital disorder of bone resorption. It is caused by failure of osteoclasts to reabsorb immature bone. Severe infantile or malignant osteopetrosis present at birth or develops within the first few months of life. We are reporting here a case of two siblings with malignant osteopetrosis. Prominent clinical features included marked pallor, noisy r...
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Osteopetrosis is a rare, inherited disease characterized by dense and brittle bones, and it is associated with an increased risk of femoral fractures. However, the surgical treatment of the fracture patients with osteopetrosis is a subject of controversy, because it is difficult to compare the treatment effects between surgical treatment and conservative treatment in part due to the rarity of s...
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Osteopetrosis ("marble bone disease") is a descriptive term that refers to a group of rare, heritable disorders of the skeleton characterized by increased bone density on radiographs. The overall incidence of these conditions is difficult to estimate but autosomal recessive osteopetrosis (ARO) has an incidence of 1 in 250,000 births, and autosomal dominant osteopetrosis (ADO) has an incidence o...
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We report the occurrence of spondylolysis and/or spondylolisthesis of the lumbar vertebrae in five patients with osteopetrosis, four of them having multiple lesions. The case histories indicate that spondylolysis had developed in the pathological bone as a result of increased stress and that it is an acquired lesion.
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The anaemia so frequently found in cases of osteopetrosis in children has been generally regarded as being due to poor development of the bone marrow cavity by failure of absorption and organization of primitive chondro-osteoid tissue (Warkany, 1959; Clifton and Frank, 1959; Aegerter and Kirkpatrick, 1958). In many cases, however, the severity of the anaemia has not corresponded with the radiol...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Internal and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1828-0447,1970-9366
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-015-1331-4