Retention of a well-fixed acetabular component in the setting of massive acetabular osteolysis and pelvic discontinuity: A case report.

We report a case of multicentric massive osteolysis. A 52-year-old woman presented with a three-year history of progressive deformities of the hands. She had osteolytic lesions of the metacarpals and metatarsals, and resorption of the terminal phalanges. During follow-up over four years osteolysis spread to affect the ribs, clavicles, mandible, and long bones. There was no family history of any...

A patient with a 2-year history of pain in the left arm, and decreased strengths unrelieved by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory therapy, was being referred for repeating radiography. The radiologic examinations have demonstrated a unique pattern of non-contiguous osteolysis in the left elbow, proximal and distal radius, ulna, wrist, carpal bones, proximal and distal metacarpals and phalanges. Mu...

INTRODUCTION The Gorham-Stout Syndrome (Gorham's massive osteolysis) is a rare condition in which spontaneous, progressive resorption of bone occurs. The etiology is poorly understood. CASE PRESENTATION We reported here a patient who had begun insidiously and was characterized by extensive osteolysis in the left upper limb, with progressive carpal bone resorption. The characteristic radiologi...

Massive osteolysis known as Gorham-Stout disease is a rare idiopathic disorder typically affecting long bones in a unifocal pattern. Angiomatosis is strongly connected to the osteolysis. Weather angiomatosis is the cause or the result of osteolysis is subject of intense discussion (Kawasaki et al. (2003), Möller et al. (1999), Radhakrishnan and Rockson (2008)). There are about 200 cases describ...

We have reviewed 65 bipolar arthroplasties of the hip in 55 patients with osteoarthritis secondary to dysplasia. The mean age at operation was 56 years (42 to 79) and the mean period of follow-up was 7.2 years (5.0 to 13.0). The average Merle d'Aubigné and Postel score before operation was 10.3 and at final follow-up 15.0. There were excellent or good results in 42 hips (65%). Migration of the ...

Gorham's disease is a rare disorder of unknown etiology and variable clinical presentation and is characterized by the proliferation of lymphatic vessels associated with massive regional osteolysis. Although 10 cases involving the skull and cervical spine have been reported in the literature, little is available concerning the surgical treatment of either atlantoaxial dislocation or basilar imp...