BACKGROUND To assess the success of the uptake of bone graft in cleft alveolus of the cleft lip and palate patients, quantitatively through computed tomography (CT) scan 6 months postoperative. To assess the successful eruption of permanent lateral incisor or canine in the bone grafted area. MATERIALS AND METHODS The children age group of 9-21 years with unilateral cleft lip and palate came t...

metastatic survey of the patients with known primary malignancies with bone scan is one of the most common studies in nuclear medicine. unfortunately the conventional planar bone scan has a very low specificity for differentiating benign from malignant lesions especially in the spinal column. in this study, we compared the specificity of spect imaging and conventional planar bone scan. we studi...

BACKGROUND Insufficiency fractures (IF) occur as a result of normal physiological stress on bones with deficient elastic resistance. Pelvic insufficiency fractures are a complication of osteoporosis due to postmenopausal status, high dose of corticosteroids, or local irradiation. They are important because differential diagnosis includes pelvic bone metastases. Diagnosis is based on both clinic...

The application of porous materials is increasingly being used in orthopaedic surgery due to its good results. Bone growth within the pores results excellent mechanical fixation with bone, as well bone regeneration. pores, addition colonised by produce a decrease modulus elasticity that favours transfer loads bone. This research shows an experimental study where we have created critical osteope...

Paget's disease is uncommon in Asians. We present 3 patients with varying manifestations. A 50 years old lady was detected to have raised alkaline phosphatase at a routine health check-up. Isoenzyme studies confirmed its bony origin. Bone scan revealed polyostotic disease. A 65 years old male patient with known Paget's disease of 6 years duration presented with pelvic girdle pain, progressive i...

OBJECTIVE The study tested the hypothesis that females who sustain stress fractures of cancellous bone have decreased bone density. DESIGN A retrospective, controlled, cross-sectional study. SETTING The setting of the study was a tertiary care center for Women's Sports Medicine. PATIENTS 20 female patients under the age of 40 who had suffered a stress fracture and who had a positive diagn...

Purpose. To determine whether axial MR imaging could replace bone scan as the primary staging test in newly diagnosed CaP. Material and Methods. We reviewed retrospectively all bone scans (n = 1201) performed in newly diagnosed CaP patients from 2000 to 2010 in a single tertiary academic center. We recorded patient age, ethnicity, PSA at diagnosis, TNM stage, Gleason score, alkaline phosphatase...