'Brown tumors' are known as 'osteitis fibrosa cystica' or 'Von Recklinghausen's disease' of the bone. A high index of suspicion is required by the treating doctor for diagnosing a 'brown tumor' in its early stage. Clinical suspicion, along with laboratory and radiological investigations, is required to diagnose this condition. We present a case of a 65-year-old woman who had multiple bony lesio...

Septic diseases of the bone and the immediate surrounding soft tissue, i.e., osteitis, belong to the most alarming findings in recent traumatology and orthopedic surgery. The paramount goal of this therapy is to preserve the stable weight-bearing bones while maintaining a correct axis and proper working muscles and joints, in order to avoid permanent disability in the patient. "State-of-the-art...

CONTEXT Pelvic stress fractures, osteitis pubis, and snapping hip syndrome account for a portion of the overuse injuries that can occur in the running athlete. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION PUBMED SEARCHES WERE PERFORMED FOR EACH ENTITY USING THE FOLLOWING KEYWORDS: snapping hip syndrome, coxa sultans, pelvic stress fracture, and osteitis pubis from 2008 to 2013. Topic reviews, case reports, case seri...

The case is described of a woman who died with a functioning parathyroid carcinoma 19 years after removal of two parathyroid tumours, considered at the time to be benign. Following operation hyperparathyroidism subsided, with a short period of hypocalcaemia, and severe osteitis fibrosa cystica healed. Five years before death progressive renal failure developed with normal and later raised serum...

THE diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism has been classically based upon the demonstration of high plasma calcium and low plasma phosphorus concentrations and an excessive urinary excretion of calcium. In recent years, however, it has become recognized that patients with primary hyperparathyroidism may present with plasma calcium concentrations that are within the normal range (George et al...

We have described clinical features of 53 cases with pustulotic arthro-osteitis. Anterior chest wall symptoms such as intersterno-costoclavicular or manubriosternal lesions were observed in all of 53 cases. Spondylitis or spondylodiscitis was found in 18 cases. Sacroiliitis resembling ankylosing spondylitis was seen in 7 cases. Peripheral inflammatory arthritis was seen in 14 cases, which were ...

Osteitis has been transformed in recent times from a lethal or crippling disease to one in which restitution of bone to normal can be expected (Trueta and Morgan 1954). Yet if diagnosis and treatment are delayed the disease, despite antibiotics, may show all its former complications and may run the same unfavourable course as was described by earlier surgeons (Pyrah and Pain 1933). In Africa an...

We reviewed 16 patients with salmonella osteitis or septic arthritis. All patients were immunologically normal and none had a history of typhoid fever. We discuss the importance of obtaining a bacteriological diagnosis and provide guidelines on the duration of antibiotic treatment.

In Paget's disease the peripheral blood flow is increased in the bones affected by the disease. Nevertheless the circulatory dynamics of the patients studied at rest are usually not modified significantly. But during exercise, an abnormal augmentation of the cardiac output in regard to the metabolic needs is observed. These findings are similar to those the authors have observed in patients suf...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2014 1571 Although persistence of B. melitensis in wild ruminants has not been reported, and these animals are considered an epidemiologic dead-end reservoir (3), the unexpected prevalence observed (≈50%) suggests that Alpine ibex could be the source of bovine brucellosis reemergence in the study area in France. Strict s...