Typhoid Osteitis of the Long Bones

Typhoid osteitis in infancy.

In 1835 Maisonneuve first recognized osteomyelitis as a complication of typhoid and since then this bone lesion, although well known, has been reported only occasionally. Murphy (1916) collected 164 cases of typhoid periostitis and osteitis occurring in 18,840 cases of typhoid infection reported by 15 authors, an incidence of 0 82% of bone involvement. Veal (1939) also found osteitis in less th...

Defects in long bones from severe neglected osteitis.

Osteitis has been transformed in recent times from a lethal or crippling disease to one in which restitution of bone to normal can be expected (Trueta and Morgan 1954). Yet if diagnosis and treatment are delayed the disease, despite antibiotics, may show all its former complications and may run the same unfavourable course as was described by earlier surgeons (Pyrah and Pain 1933). In Africa an...

On a form of chronic inflammation of bones. (Osteitis deformans).

Resection of the Long Bones

The Prophylactic Effect of Methyl Prednisolone Sodium Succinate against Fat Embolism in Long Bones Fractures

In this prospective study the effect of low dose methylprednisolone succinate (10mg/kg) on the incidence of fat embolism syndrome and isolated arterial hypoxemia in 99 patients with long bone fracture (52 control and 47 steroid-trated subjects) was studied. Frequency of fractures among the selected patients was as follows: femoral fracture 52.5%, tibial fracture 36.4%, both femoral and tibial f...