Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common autoimmune systemic disease of the connective tissue affecting individuals at the developmental age. Radiography is the primary modality employed in the diagnostic imaging in order to identify changes typical of this disease entity and rule out other bone-related pathologies, such as neoplasms, posttraumatic changes, developmental defects and oth...

OBJECTIVES Anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy with infliximab has been shown to improve signs and symptoms of patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The objective of this article was to study the effect of infliximab on structural changes in AS over 4 yrs. METHODS Conventional radiographs of the cervical and the lumbar spine of 33 AS patients at baseline (BL), after 2 (FU1) and af...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of severe dystrophic calcification in maxillary sinus of a child with liver transplantation and dental organs pigmented by hyperbilirubinemia. CASE DESCRIPTION female patient, 12 years old, with liver transplantation performed at the age of 7 due to extrahepatic biliary atresia (EHBA). The patient was receiving the immunosuppressant tacrolimus (2 mg daily). Intraora...

has been known for 50 years that inhalation of asbestos dust can lead to appearances on chest roentgenograms that are different from those associated with silicosis and coal workers’ pneumoconiosis.1 However, only the latest international classifications of the radiographic appearances of the pneumoconioses allow the recording of such shadows.2’3 These include what are now called small irregula...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which clinical and radiographic features of bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw (BONJ) are correlated. DESIGN Retrospective case review. METHODS The records of 39 patients diagnosed with BONJ and examined by panoramic radiography were retrospectively evaluated. The arches were divided into sextants (n = 234) and evaluated for the followin...