Sclerodermia with Myositis Fibrosa

Sclerodermia, Diffuse

Diffuse sclerodermia is a very rare condition. Dr Phineas Abraham, the writer of the article on " Sclerodermia/' in Allbutt and Rolleston's System oj Medicine, in speaking of diffuse sclero' dermia, states that M'Call Anderson had 2 cases in 11,000 disease of the skin, and Crocker 2 in 10,000 cases. In 17,000 general medical cases seen in my hospital practice (8502 in-patients, 863^ out-patient...

Muscular Atrophy and Sclerodermia

Eosinophilic myositis Associated with Sarcocystis in Sheep

Generalized Osteitis Fibrosa with Parathyroid Adenoma

or disseminated sclerosis but I was told that she had had some pain around the groin, that her doctor had sent her for X-ray of the pelvis, and that a large destructive lesion had been found in one of the pubic rami. A surgeon saw her and advised that she should be admitted to a chronic hospital: the diagnosis was secondary tumours of bone. When I first looked at this X-ray picture of the pubis...

Normacalcaemic primary hyperparathyroidism with osteitis fibrosa.

THE diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism has been classically based upon the demonstration of high plasma calcium and low plasma phosphorus concentrations and an excessive urinary excretion of calcium. In recent years, however, it has become recognized that patients with primary hyperparathyroidism may present with plasma calcium concentrations that are within the normal range (George et al...