Discovery of osteitis may be delayed because of late appearance of X-ray signs in patients with diabetic foot. Scintigraphy with labelled leukocytes is able to detect flogosis but often misses bone involvement, due to inadequate resolution of Anger camera, the commonest detector used in nuclear medicine. Radioguided surgery and biopsy with high resolution scintigraphy (HRS) started to be studie...

INTRODUCTION Renal osteodystrophy includes the complete range of mineral metabolism disorders that affect the skeleton in patients with chronic renal failure. PATIENTS AND METHODS 200 patients with end-stage renal disease and on dialysis were investigated regarding the clinical, biochemical and histological findings of bone disease. RESULTS The spectrum of renal osteodystrophy consisted mai...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of this study was to report our clinical experience, in a pilot study, of the use of the selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor celecoxib, pre-emptively, to control pain in patients after surgical extraction of a mandibular molar tooth. PATIENT AND METHODS This randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, prospective clinical trial was conducted over an...

BACKGROUND MULTIPLE SURGICAL PROCEDURES EXIST FOR THE TREATMENT OF OSTEITIS PUBIS: curettage of the symphysis joint, wedge resection, complete resection of the joint, placement of extraperitoneal retropubic synthetic mesh, and arthrodesis of the joint. However, a paucity of literature has reported long-term successful outcomes with the aforementioned approaches. Patients treated operatively hav...

BACKGROUND Osteitis pubis represents a non-infectious inflammation of the pubic symphysis causing varying degrees of lower abdominal and pelvic pain. Although, the disease is believed to affect mainly young athletic patients, it is also encountered in other specific patient groups. Both conservative and surgical treatment options are available. While for elite athletes surgical treatment is ind...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the efficacy of low level laser therapy (LLLT) for managing alveolar osteitis (AO). MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty patients with alveolar osteitis of mandibular third molars were randomly divided into three groups. In group 1, socket irrigation was followed by alvogyl placement, and the treatment was repeated 48 hours later. In group 2, socket was irradiated wit...

Multiple pseudo-cyst formation is an uncommon manifestation of skeletal tuberculosis. Confusion has been caused by the failure to differentiate between this form of osseous tuberculosis, the solitary foci of diaphysial tuberculous osteitis, tuberculous dactylitis, and the bone lesions of sarcoidosis. This confusion has largely been due to Jungling (1920, 1928) who, believing them to be of tuber...

The knowledge of potential complications after surgical removal of third molars and adequate risk assessment is indispensable in oral surgery. The present retrospective study analyzed the influence of different parameters, such as the patient’s age and gender, retention type, and radiological projection (using orthopantomography) of wisdom teeth on the mandibular canal on postoperative complica...

PURPOSE We assessed whether MRI measures of synovitis, osteitis and bone erosion were associated with patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in a longitudinal clinical trial setting among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS This longitudinal cohort of 291 patients with RA was derived from the MRI substudy of the GO-BEFORE randomised controlled trial of golimumab among methotrexate-naïv...