Pituitary Diseases and Bone

Bone and Joint Diseases

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Developmental and Generalized Bone Diseases

A STUDY of the literature reveals considerable confusion as regards the classification of these developmental and generalized bone diseases, a confusion increased by the very elaborate and redundant nomenclature. Conditions thought at one time to be individual and distinct entities, have been shown in the light of further knowledge to have common ground either in causation or in the pathology o...

Thyroid diseases and bone health

Thyroid hormones are essential for skeletal development and are important regulators of bone maintenance in adults. Childhood hypothyroidism causes delayed skeletal development, retarded linear growth and impaired bone mineral accrual. Epiphyseal dysgenesis is evidenced by classic features of stippled epiphyses on X-ray. In severe cases, post-natal growth arrest results in a complex skeletal dy...

Diseases of Bone

Morphometric methods are commonly used in the diagnosis of diseases of bone. These may be divided into static and dynamic measurements. Static measurements include: (i) the proportion of trabecular surface which is resting, resorbing or covered by osteoid (by a perimeter intersect technique); (ii) the thickness of osteoid seams; and (iii) the proportion of the section occupied by mineralized bo...

Developmental Bone Diseases