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Osteomyelitis - Bildgebende Verfahren und ihre Wertigkeit
1998
Various imaging modalities are used in diagnosis of acute and chronic infectious endogenous osteomyelitis and exogenous ostitis. The pathophysiological changes of osteomyelitis/ostitis in the bone and surrounding soft tissue are known. Findings in plain film radiography show these changes only in relatively advanced stages of disease. Hence, plain film radiographs are useful as a basic imaging modality by excluding other differentials and as a follow-up modality under therapy. Ultrasound-using advanced technology--offers diagnostic help in acute osteomyelitis, especially in infants. The various techniques of nuclear medicine show much higher sensitivity for detecting osteomyelitis than plai…
PULMONARY AND CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS OF STAPHYLOCOCCAL OSTEOMYELITIS
1985
Pulmonary complications of staph.osteomyelitis seem to be infrequent and are seldom related in wide reviews of this entity and in texts of infectious diseases.Cardiac complications are still more infrequently found.However our experience is far from this observation. We have found pneumonic interstitial infiltrates and/or asymptomatic pneumatoceles in about two thirds of children suffering from staph. osteomyelitis to whom we have taken a weekly chest radiograph while they were feverish.Severe forms are rare.Lately,however,we have treated 5 children with acute staph.osteomyelitis,aged 6 to 13,and whith severe pulmonary and cardiac complications.They had broad bone lesions which affected (1)…
Successful treatment of primary chronic osteomyelitis in SAPHO syndrome with bisphosphonates.
2008
Summary The treatment of the painful osteomyelitis in patients with SAPHO syndrome (Synovitis, Acne, Pustulosis, Hyperostosis, Osteitis) is often a problem. A 53-year-old woman had experienced palmo-plantar pustular skin lesions for four years, and in the past two years complained about progressive breath-and movement-dependent pain of the sternum. On examination she had extensive palmoplantar pustules and a painful swelling in the area of the right sternoclavicular joint. The three-phase bone scintigraphy showed a strong focal enrichment in the right sternoclavicular joint and at the transition from the manubrium to the corpus sterni suggesting active osteo-chondritis. Initially prednisolo…
Wirbelsäulenmanifestationen der chronischen rekurrierenden multifokalen Osteomyelitis (CRMO)
2002
Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is a systemic osteo-articular disease that is characterized by a sterile, primarily chronic osteomyelitis with various distribution patterns of the individual lesions. In this article, we describe the "axial type" with predominant involvement of the spine, which represents 13 of our 41 CRMO cases of different age groups. The important element of its diagnosis is the typical lympho-plasmacellular spondylitis that can be detected and staged by scintigraphy, MRI and conventional radiography. Potentially affected are all vertebrae from the mid-cervical spine to the sacrum. One or several segments can be involved, sometimes as transient inflammat…