Chronic proliferative osteitis of the skull.

Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis presenting as osteitis skull and atlantoaxial dislocation.

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...

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...

Asymptomatic and Recurrent Hyperparathyroidism

Symptomatic Disease Bone disease in its florid form, osteitis fibrosa cystica generalizata, is now rarely seen. In 1947 Norris (1) found an incidence of this condition of 91% in those with a parathyroid adenoma. The earliest changes can be detected by X-rays of the hands where subperiosteal erosions can be detected in the phalanges (especially radial aspect of the middle phalanges) and terminal...

Serum 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D in Chronic Rhinosinusitis with and Without Nasal Polyposis: A Case-Control Study in Northern Iran

Introduction: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) with and without nasal polyposis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the sinuses and nasal mucosa. Recent evidence has indicated a relationship between serum 25-hydroxyl vitamin D (OH-VitD) deficiency and CRS. Regarding this, the present study aimed to compare the serum level of 25-OH-VitD in CRS patients with and without nasal polyposis and control g...