The authors describe a 48-year-old woman suffering from bilateral upper-extremity numbness and axial radiating pain. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed soft-tissue edema and enhancement surrounding the dorsal tip of the C7 spinous process. Excisional biopsy of the lesion revealed a mildly inflamed bursa, with no evidence of an active infection. Removal of the inflamed bursa resulted in complet...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a member of the transmissible spongiform encepahlopathies, has been a notifiable disease in Turkey since 1997. In 2002, the BSE status of Turkey was assessed by the EU Scientific Steering Committee as "it is likely but not confirmed". This study presents the results of a targeted surveillance study to assess the presence of BSE in the age risk population ...

Rupture of the lateral lobe of the proximal tendon of the biceps brachii muscle was diagnosed in an Arabian horse. To the authors' knowledge, this is the only report of this condition in horses. Although clinical signs were helpful in the identification of the location of disease, ultrasonographic examination was a more definitive and non- invasive means of diagnosing the pathological condition...

objectives: patients suffering from mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis may be treated with unloader knee orthoses or laterally wedged insoles. the aim of this study was to identify and compare the effects of two orthoses in these patients. methods: 56 patients with medial compartment knee oa were evaluated when wearing an unloader knee orthosis and insoles with a 6° lateral wedge which were r...

tuberculosis (tb), once a disease confined to undeveloped or developing nations is currently in resurgence, which is attributable to pandemic human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and immigration from endemic areas. tuberculous arthritis is difficult to diagnose early because of its atypical insidious clinical manifestations and nonspecific imaging findings. tb is also known as the ‘grea...

background : biomechanical factors are known to be important in knee osteoarthritis (oa) development and progression. this study was designed to determine changes of hamstrings muscle activation, knee adduction moment and ankle rotation angle in two knee osteoarthritis (mild and moderate) and a healthy control group.   methods: 16 females (10 with mild and 6 with moderate medial knee osteoarthr...

A patient with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis and recurrent oedema of the forearm was shown to have a leak from a multilobulated olecranon bursa.

OBJECTIVE To determine which physiological mechanism is responsible for the blood pressure increase during leg crossing at knee-level in the sitting position. METHODS Finger blood pressure was measured with the Finometer in 102 participants (47 men) before and during leg crossing: 24 treated hypertensive patients, 50 diabetic individuals (25 with and 25 without antihypertensive medication) an...

Tuberculous trochanteric bursitis is rare. We report on a 48-year-old man with a huge gravitational abscess in the thigh secondary to tuberculosis of the trochanteric bursa.