Background SAPHO is a heterogeneous autoinflammatory disease, characterized by bone and joint involvement wide variety of dermatologic manifestations, including palmo-plantar pustulosis (PPP), acne, hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), pyoderma gangrenosum (PG), psoriasis, Snedd-Wilkinson disease Sweet syndrome. In children, the osteo-articular manifestations are chronic recurrent multifocal osteomye...

2.1 Summary ............................................... 5 2.2 Definition .............................................. 6 2.3 History ................................................... 6 2.4 Overview of Currently Used Classification Systems and Terminology 7 2.5 Currently Used Terms in Classification of Osteomyelitis of the Jaws .................. 11 2.5.1 Acute/Subacute Osteomyelitis .......

A 68-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer, who had undergone left quadrantectomy 24 years prior, had suffered from palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP) and pain in multiple joints and bones for 3 years. Technetium bone scanning showed increased uptake in the sternum, sternocostoclavicular joint, cervical vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, and right knee (Picture 1, left). A radiograph of the lumba...

After having described problems involved in automatie labeHing and having shown eurrent application in the domain of automarle speech processing, we expose our automarle labeHing system. This system comprises two sub-systems : the sub-system for labelling and segmenting to phonetic events, the VERIPHONE system, which aligns strings of phonetic events with strings of phonetic notation. Results o...

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is an autoinflammatory bone disease of unknown etiology, most commonly affecting the metaphysis of long bones, especially the tibia, femur and clavicle. The clinical spectrum varies from self-limited uni-or multi-focal lesions to chronic recurrent courses. Diagnosis is based on clinical, radiologic and pathological findings, is probably underdia...

Chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) has been known for over of 40 years. It is an underrecognized entity due to the low number of described cases and poor propagation awareness of the problem. Chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis is usually confused with infectious spondylodiscitis or malignant lesions, both primary and metastatic. Failing to consider CNO as one of possible lesions of the ...

Reactive arthritis (ReA) has traditionally been described as a nonseptic arthritis occurring in the joint following an extra-articular bacterial infection. This concept became clinically associated with antecedent infections of either the gastrointestinal or genitourinary tract. Yet this operational definition of ReA has led to diagnostic uncertainty in different clinical settings. There are se...