INTRODUCTION Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of disability, but despite the high unmet clinical need and extensive research seeking dependable therapeutic interventions, no proven disease-modifying treatment for OA is currently available. Due to the close interaction and interplay between the articular cartilage and the subchondral bone plate, it has been hypothesized that antiresorptive...

abstract introduction: temporomandibular joint disorders (tmd) are the most common disorders of the jaw, and despite their clinical importance, they are not completely understood. this study was aimed to evaluate the changes of temporomandibular joint (tmj) on cone beam computed tomography (cbct) images in disc displacement vs. osteoarthritis of the tmj. methods: in this study, 45 patients, inc...

A 77-year-old man presented with 2 episodes of waking up with symptoms of vertebrobasilar ischemia (figure, A and B) within 6 months. A CT angiogram showed narrowing of the right vertebral artery due to extrinsic compression by an osteophyte of the superior articular process of the fourth cervical vertebra, compromising the foramen transversarium (figure, C and D). Dynamic angiography demonstra...

Two cases were reported in which severe postoperative laryngeal edema were developed after the operation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) of cervical spine. In the first case, sudden airway obstruction was developed in the general ward 6 hour after uneventful decompression surgery for osteophyte. In the second patient, an elective preoperative tracheostomy was performed before...

Spinal osteophytic changes are known to be affected by differences in age, sex, population, and mechanical stress. We examined Joseon skeletons (n=87) to obtain vertebral osteophytosis data on a pre-modern Korean population. The mean osteophytic value (MOV) of vertebrae increased in the cervical-thoracic-lumbar order. More severe osteophytosis was found in the vertebrae (C5, T9, T10, and L4) fa...

A woman aged forty-four was first seen in November 1970 for a feeling of a lump in the throat with dysphagia of two years’ duration. The symptoms had become steadily worse. In the past she had complained of some aching in the neck. Examination showed bulging of the posterior wall of the hypopharynx. Barium swallow radiography revealed deformation of the junction of the hypopharynx and oesophagu...

Objetive: To evaluate possible benefits obtained through the use of surgical videoarthroscopy in the management of glenohumeral osteoarthritis. Methods: We evaluated 37 patients (38 shoulders) who underwent through surgical videoarthroscopy in the period between November 1999 and May 2009 (minimum follow-up of two years). Twenty five patients attend for revaluation and thirteen were interviewed...

From 1990 to 1994 we undertook arthroscopy of the ankle on 34 consecutive patients with residual complaints following fracture. Two groups were compared prospectively. Group I comprised 18 patients with complaints which could be attributed clinically to anterior bony or soft-tissue impingement. In group II the complaints of the 16 patients were more diffuse and despite extensive investigation t...