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...

Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (FLCOD) is a rare, but well recognized condition that characteristically affects the jaws of middle aged women. It usually manifests radiographically as a diffuse, lobulated and irregularly shaped radio-opacities distributed throughout the alveolar processes which are usually bilaterally symmetrical. This condition has been classified as sclerosing osteitis, mul...

The classic bone disease of primary hyperparathyroidism, osteitis fibrosa cystica, was characterized by subperiosteal bone resorption, osteopenia, and "brown tumors." Since the description of this skeletal disorder, the clinical profile of primary hyperparathyroidism has evolved markedly. The disease today is often characterized by no more than asymptomatic hypercalcemia, and severe bone diseas...

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 ...

MRI was performed at three centres in Bombay on 24 patients clinically suspected of tuberculosis of the spine but with normal radiographs. There were 11 males and 13 females and their average age was 24 years (11 to 60). 99mTc bone scans were done in 16 patients before MRI. Eleven patients had the diagnosis confirmed by biopsy and the remainder all responded rapidly to specific antituberculous ...

The histopathology of bone is described in 60 patients with chronic renal failure due to a variety of renal diseases. Changes of azotaemic renal osteodystrophy included osteitis fibrosa, osteomalacia, and osteosclerosis. Quantitative histology using a point-counting technique revealed a significant increase in total bone, mineralized bone, and osteoid in comparison with a control group of 68 in...