The objective of this article is to harmonize descriptive definitions for the condition known as alveolar osteitis and to critically review and discuss the aetiology and pathogenesis of alveolar osteitis. In addition, the need for the identification and elimination of risk factors as well as the preventive and symptomatic management of the condition are discussed. The aim of this critical revie...

Pedal osteitis is a radiographic description of structural changes at the solar margin of the distal phalanx rather than a proven disease and cause of lameness. Little is known about the pathophysiologic mechanisms that cause the associated radiographic changes, and it is difficult to regard pedal osteitis as a primary disease. The radiographic changes leading to this descriptive designation ha...

Osteitis pubis is the most common inflammatory condition of the pubic symphysis and may present as acute abdominal, pelvic, or groin pain. Osteomyelitis pubis can occur concurrently and spontaneously with osteitis pubis. Primary care physicians should consider these conditions in patients presenting with abdominal and pelvic pain. A thorough history, including type of physical activity, and a f...

We reviewed the records of 1,156 patients treated for acute staphylococcal osteitis or septic arthritis over a 12-year period; 38 had been critically ill with evidence of multiple-organ involvement and 30 (79%) had features of the toxic shock syndrome. The mortality rate of these 38 patients was 13% and the long-term orthopaedic complication rate was 39%. The diagnosis and management of patient...

I SHOULD not have offered to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society a mere collection of cases such as this paper contains, if it were not for the hope that they may help to clearly indicate the chief characters of the disease to which I venture to give the name of osteitis deformans, and which, so far as I know, was first described in the paper published in the 60th volume of the Society's ...