Fragility fractures are recognized complication of diabetes, but yet the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. This is particularly pronounced in type 2 diabetes in which the propensity to fall is increased but bone mass is not necessarily low. Thus, whether factors implicated in the development of insulin resistance and diabetes directly impact on the musculoskeletal system remains t...

Alveolar ridge resorption is a natural consequence of teeth extraction, with unpleasant aesthetic and functional consequences that might compromise future oral rehabilitation. To minimize the biological alveolar resorption, several surgical procedures have been designed, so-called preservation (ARP) techniques. One important characteristic concomitant use biomaterial in ARP. In past decade, aut...

Fibrous dysplasia is a condition leading to abnormal differentiation of osteoblasts which leads to replacement of normal bone with fibrous stroma [1-3]. It may involve single bone (monostotic) or multiple bones (polyostotic). It may affect any bone however; skull and ribs are the commonest [2,4-6]. It is usually asymptomatic and is an incidental finding. It may become symptomatic when complicat...

The possibility of calculating muscular forces and momentums and their influence on skeleton was evaluated in this study by means of computerized tomography performed on a living person. Through this, the surface and corrected surface for each muscle cross section area were obtained, the distance from muscular centroide to the neutral bone axis was measured, and muscular force and muscular mome...

BACKGROUND Primary bone lymphomas are very rare. The diagnosis is based on a histopathological examination and imaging studies where other disease foci should be excluded. The lymphomas are most often found in the axial skeleton, pelvis, femur and humerus. The tumour causes extensive lytic bone destruction with soft tissue infiltration. Surgical treatment is currently not used routinely. The ai...

Melorheostosis is a rare osteosclerotic bone dysplasia. It is usually characterized by dull and aching pain, reduced joint motion and contractures. Classic radiograph findings are of undulating cortical hyperostosis along the length of the bone, simulating a "dripping candlewax appearance". We report two cases of melorheostosis of the ulna bone, diagnosed 6 years apart in two different females ...

Seronegative spondyloarthritides (SpA) is a group of inflammatory rheumatic diseases characterized by inflammation of the sacroiliac joints and/or the spine, enthesitis and peripheral arthritis. MRI is the imaging method of choice for visualization of the sacroiliac joint and spine according to the new ASAS classification criteria for axial SpA. It can visualize both active inflammation and str...

The microarchitecture of the trabecular bone is an highly informative feature for osteoporosis assessment. High resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography permits its in-vivo observation at a resolution of 82 μm. In this paper we propose an approach that assesses bone microarchitecture based on texture features extracted from the trabecular bone. The method is based on three-dimensi...