Wilson's disease (hepatolenticular degeneration) is an uncommon recessively inherited disease, in which various osteoarticular changes have been described (Finby and Beam, 1958; Rosenoer and Michell, 1959; Walshe, 1962; Boudin, Pepin, and Hubault, 1964; Charbonnel, Vercelletto, LeMouroux, Besan9on, and Feve, 1965; Mehta and Shinde, 1965; Cavallino and Grossman, 1968; Mindelzun, Elkin, Scheinber...

Objective: To compare the epidemiological, the clinical and the paraclinical profile of osteoarticular infections in HIV-positive patients and in HIV-negative patients. Patients and Methods: patients with Osteoarticular infections recognized on the basis of radioclinical and epidemiological arguments were included in this study. The comparison that was based on the existence or was not of HIV i...

INTRODUCTION The Tc-99m-ciprofloxacin complex, introduced in 1993, has been extensively evaluated all over the world with good results for the diagnosis of active bacterial osteoarticular infections. There are only a few publications on the use of this procedure in pediatric ages. In our study we evaluated the efficacy of the Tc-99m ciprofloxacin scan for the diagnosis of osteoarticular infecti...