The development of an osteonecrotic (avascular necrosis) hip joint in a patient with symptomatic CDC Stage 1V C2 disease is reported. The diagnosis was aided by radiological assessment and confirmed by radioisotope bone scan. This case serves as yet another musculoskeletal manifestation in association with HIV infection.

A prospective survey was carried out on all cases of irritable hip presenting at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital over a period of one year. All children had a radioisotope scan of the hips and were then followed for one year by serial radiography. Five of the 50 children seen during the one year had areas of ischaemia in the capital femoral epiphysis demonstrated on the scan. all five d...

Apophyseal fracture affecting the greater trochanter is a rare injury in children. We report a case of non traumatic avulsion of the greater trochanter in a 13-year-old boy who presented with a history of pain about his right hip over the past few months. Hip radiographs, radioisotope bone scan and CT scan confirmed the diagnosis of avulsion of the greater trochanter with minimal displacement. ...

Hypertension is a known complication after renal trauma. The cause of posttraumatic hypertension can be renal scarring, infarction, hydonephrosis, infection, vascular injury, and parenchymal compression. The authors report on the case of a 16-year-old boy who experienced hypertension after blunt renal trauma. He had a dense fibrous pseudocapsule causing renal parenchymal compression, which lead...

A case of sustained involuntary laughter is described, with accompanying alteration of mood, due to infarction of the inferior and lateral aspects of the left temporal lobe. The lesion was localized by the clinical findings, by electroencephalography, by a radioisotope brain scan, and by angiography. The problem of the neurology of emotional behaviour is discussed in the context of the localiza...

The new potential tracer of bone imaging, AHBDP-Sn(II)-TcO.3H(2)O was synthesized by reducing the TcO(4) (-) to TcO(2) (+) in the presence of AHBDP and Sn(ll)'s reducing agent. We found that tin rapidly forms a stable complex with AHBDP, giving AHBDP-Sn(II).3H(2)O. In the excess of AHBDP-Sn(ll).3H(2)O, the AHBDP-Sn(II).3H(2)O coordinates with TcO(2) (+) to give AHBDP-Sn(II)-TcO.3H(2)O which cou...

The characteristics of lymphedema on radionuclide lymphoscintigraphy were studied, and the diagnostic value of radionuclide lymphoscintigraphy in lymphedema was evaluated. In this report radionuclide lymphoscintigraphy was performed in 110 cases of clinically suspected lymphedema. A retrospective study method was used to analyze the imaging results. The typical pattern of lymphedema on radionuc...