Dentists encounter a wide range of hard-tissue injuries in practice. Dental extractions are one of the most common procedures in dentistry and may lead to several complications, including oral sinus complications, osteitis, infection, dysesthesia, pain, and bleeding.

We report a case of infectious osteitis pubis following a first trimester abortion in a female seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Joint aspiration yielded Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the patient was successfully treated with oral ciprofloxacin.

To cite: Sandoval MAS. BMJ Case Reports Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2012-008086 DESCRIPTION The case of a patient with primary hyperparathyroidism with classic and severe skeletal involvement has been previously reported. Briefly, it was the case of a 63-year-old woman who presented with multiple repeated fractures, the latest of which were of both femoral...

The simian figure of the country gentleman from the north of England, who was Sir James Paget's first reported case (1877) of osteitis deformans, hobbles still through all accounts of this disease: he exemplifies most of the known complications. Paget himself learnt little more from the twenty-two other cases he saw (1882, 1889), and since then a forest of at least 700 articles, covering over 2...