INDIAN PEDIATRICS 1069 VOLUME 41OCTOBER 17, 2004 attenuation of prostatic tissue seen in congenital obstructions leads to loss of obliquity of the normal ejaculatory ducts as they enter the posterior urethra. Associated distal obstruction to the flow of urine may aid in the urethro-ejaculatory reflux of urine .If the urine is infected, this precipitates epididymo-orchitis as it happened in the ...

Clinical, endocrinological and computed tomographic features of three patients with unusual manifestations or complications of craniofacial involvement of fibrous dysplasia are presented. One patient with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia presented in late pregnancy with acute onset of bilateral optic nerve compression and blindness secondary to a rapidly expanding mass of fibrous dysplasia tissue ...

McCune-Albright syndrome is characterized by the triad café-au-lait cutaneous spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia and endocrinopathies. This article presents two cases of McCune-Albright syndrome in a middle-aged woman and a young girl. Both patients presented café-au-lait spots on the face and other parts of the body and expansion of the mandible with radiopaque-radiolucent areas with ground-...

Received 6/12/2006; revised 9/13/2006; accepted 9/14/2006. For correspondence or reprints contact: Kun-Ju Lin, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, 5 Fu-Shin Street, Kueishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Tel: (886)3-3281200 ext. 2625, Fax: (886)3-3281200 ext. 2625, E-mail: [email protected] Bone metastases are the second most freque...

Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is an osseous growth dis-order, producing immature bone and characte-rized by the replacement of normal bone with fibro-osseous connective tissue. It is a bone dys-plasia that has the potential to cause significant cosmetic and functional disturbances, particularly in the craniofacial skeleton. Cra-niofacial fibrous dysplasia is one of the three types of polyostotic fibro...

In 1937, Fuller Albright first described two rare genetic disorders: Vitamin D resistant rickets and polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, now respectively known as X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets (XLH) and the McCune-Albright syndrome. Albright carefully characterized and meticulously analyzed one patient, W.M., with vitamin D-resistant rickets. Albright subsequently reported additional carefully p...