Journal ArticleJ Surg Orthop Adv · 2012
Leiomyosarcomas of the somatic soft tissues are tumors of smooth muscle origin that occur in the extremities. These lesions are commonly high-grade tumors that carry a poor prognosis. Recommended treatment often includes wide excision and chemotherapy or r ...
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Journal ArticleJ Orthop Trauma · July 2005
OBJECTIVES: Continuously increased venous pressure has been shown to enhance bone growth, stimulate fracture healing, and prevent bone loss, but also causes soft-tissue breakdown as a result of chronic edema. This study was designed to test the hypothesis ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · April 2003
The records of 99 patients treated at one institution for osseous metastases secondary to renal cell carcinoma were reviewed. Patients were followed up for at least 24 months or until death. Survival was analyzed with respect to age, gender, disease-free i ...
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Journal ArticleDiagn Cytopathol · December 2002
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Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a reliable, safe, and cost-effective procedure with a well-established role in the diagnosis of various solid tissue neoplasms. The role of FNA in the diagnosis of primary bone tumors, including osteosarcoma (OGS), is contro ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · October 2002
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The office and hospital records of 17 patients treated for intramuscular myxomas between 1979 and the present were reviewed. Thirteen women and four men were diagnosed with an intramuscular myxoma at an average age of 55 years (range, 31-76 years). Each pa ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · July 2002
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The common objective of all surgical procedures in the treatment of giant-cell tumor of bone is to minimize the incidence of local recurrence. The purpose of this study was to determine what, if any, patient factors, tumor characteristics, or surgical prac ...
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Journal ArticleJ Surg Oncol · November 2001
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Osteosarcoma is a primary malignancy of bone. Current therapy includes neoadjuvant chemotherapy, surgery, and postoperative (adjuvant) chemotherapy. Prolonged treatment with chemotherapeutic agents may place patients at increased ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · October 2001
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Chondrosarcoma is the second most common malignant bone tumor and is relatively unresponsive to chemotherapy and radiation regimens. In addition, the clinical course of chondrosarcoma is difficult to predict. The purpose of this study was to review the aut ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Biol · July 2001
The function of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family member HER4 remains unclear because its activating ligand, heregulin, results in either proliferation or differentiation. This variable response may stem from the range of signals generated ...
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Journal ArticleJ Hand Surg Am · January 2001
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Metastatic renal cell carcinoma responds poorly to chemotherapy or radiation therapy and is associated with a dismal survival rate. In cases of a solitary acrometastasis, the literature supports complete resection of the lesion in an effort to prolong surv ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Hyperthermia · 2001
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We prospectively evaluated whether delivering a thermal dose of > 10 cumulative equivalent minutes at 43 degrees C to >90% of the tumour sites monitored (CEM43 degrees T90) would produce a pathologic complete response (pCR) in > 75% of high-grade soft tiss ...
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Journal ArticleOncology · 2001
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OBJECTIVES: Tenascin-C (TNC) is an oligomeric glycoprotein of the extracellular matrix that is prominently expressed in malignant tumors. The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine the in vitro TNC splicing pattern in cultured human chondrocytes and c ...
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Journal ArticleArch Pathol Lab Med · November 2000
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CONTEXT: Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) is a well-recognized entity that has the potential for extensive local destruction, even though it rarely metastasizes. Rare reports of malignant forms are recorded in the literature. We observed 2 patients ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · November 2000
Granular cell tumors are uncommon tumors that may arise from various soft tissue and visceral sites. These lesions often are multifocal but, with rare exceptions, are benign. Much of the literature on granular cell tumors is based on case reports mostly in ...
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Journal ArticleArchives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine · January 1, 2000
Context. - Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) is a well-recognized entity that has the potential for extensive local destruction, even though it rarely metastasizes. Rare reports of malignant forms are recorded in the literature. We observed 2 patient ...
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Journal ArticleJ Anim Sci · December 1999
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Steers of known percentage Brahman (B) and Angus (A) breeding (100% A, n = 6; F1 B x A, n = 6; and 100% B, n = 6) were used to determine the effect of calcium chloride injection on the calpain proteinase system and meat tenderness. The steers were slaughte ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · November 1, 1999
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PURPOSE: To explore the use of a novel program of preoperative radiation and hyperthermia in the management of high-grade soft tissue sarcomas (STS). METHODS AND MATERIALS: Eligible patients were adults over 18 with Grade 2 or 3 STS, surgically resectable ...
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Journal ArticleBraz J Med Biol Res · July 1999
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The treatment of some mesenchymal malignancies has made significant gains over the past few decades with the development of effective systemic therapies. In contrast, the treatment of chondrosarcoma has been limited to surgical resection, with the most sig ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · July 1999
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Aneurysmal bone cysts are benign primary or secondary lesions that commonly arise in long bones and often before skeletal maturity. Little has been written about aneurysmal bone cysts that abut the physeal plate. The records of 15 patients with juxtaphysea ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · July 1999
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Synovial sarcoma of the foot and ankle frequently is misdiagnosed, which leads to delays in treatment. The clinical records of 14 patients with synovial sarcoma of the foot and ankle were reviewed. Common findings at presentation were an enlarging mass wit ...
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Journal ArticleFoot Ankle Int · May 1999
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Pigmented villonodular synovitis is a rare but well recognized proliferative lesion of synovial tissue. It has been most commonly described in the knee and hip, with most series reporting <5% occurrence in the foot and ankle. Six patients with pigmented vi ...
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Journal ArticleOperative Techniques in Orthopaedics · January 1, 1999
The development of limb salvage techniques in the operative management of malignant bone tumors has emerged as a result of effective neoadjuvant preoperative chemotherapy. Wide excision of these tumors has replaced radical excision as definitive management ...
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Journal ArticleOperative Techniques in Orthopaedics · January 1, 1999
Resection of the proximal humerus may be required for control of benign, primary malignant, or metastatic neoplasms. The defect created by such a resection may spare the shoulder cuff muscles and deltoid (Malawer type IA) or remove them (Malawer type IB). ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · October 1998
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The records of 15 patients with metastatic carcinoma to skeletal muscle treated between 1979 and the present were reviewed. Fourteen patients were referred with a diagnosis of soft tissue sarcoma and one with suspected infection. There was a previous diagn ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bone Joint Surg Am · January 1998
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Chondrosarcoma, a malignant cartilage-forming mesenchymal tumor, displays a wide range of clinical behavior that can be difficult to predict with histological analysis. Matrix metalloproteinases contribute to the processes of local invasion and metastasis ...
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Journal ArticleDiagn Cytopathol · April 1997
Tenosynovial giant cell tumor is a relatively common benign proliferation affecting the articular and periarticular soft tissues. Cytologic findings on smears obtained by fine-needle aspiration are rather characteristic and include a mixture of oval or pol ...
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Journal ArticleSarcoma · 1997
Purpose. The prognosis, treatment principles and prediction of clinical outcome of patients with chondrosarcoma currently rest on histologic grading which is somewhat ambiguous due to difficulty in pathologic interpretation of this neoplasm. Immunohistoche ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · December 1, 1996
The adverse prognostic impact of tumor hypoxia has been demonstrated in human malignancy. We report the effects of radiotherapy and hyperthermia (HT) on soft tissue sarcoma oxygenation and the relationship between treatment-induced changes in oxygenation a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nucl Med · September 1996
UNLABELLED: The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential role of FDG-PET in the monitoring of neoadjuvant therapy of soft-tissue and musculoskeletal sarcomas. METHODS: Nine patients were studied. Neoadjuvant therapy consisted of either chemot ...
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Journal ArticleSkeletal Radiol · April 1996
OBJECTIVE: Multifocal vascular processes which arise in bone are a very inhomogeneous class of diseases. Four of these processes are derived from endothelial precursors, however, and share a similar radiographic spectrum. These four entities are reviewed i ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · March 1, 1996
This study was performed to explore the relationship between tumor oxygenation and treatment outcome in human soft tissue sarcoma. Twenty-two patients with nonmestastatic, high-grade, soft tissue sarcomas underwent preoperative irradiation and hyperthermia ...
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Journal ArticleFoot Ankle Int · April 1995
A 19-year-old baseball player was referred for assessment of recurrent sprains of the right ankle. This was found to be secondary to a palsy of the common peroneal nerve that was compressed by an osteochondroma of the fibular neck. The lesion was resected ...
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Journal ArticleJ Surg Oncol · November 1994
In the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas, hyperthermia has been demonstrated to enhance tumor necrosis from radiation therapy. The current study reports the clinical course of patients treated with this neoadjuvant therapy regimen. Forty-four patients with ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · October 15, 1994
PURPOSE: Tumor oxygenation is thought to influence the radiocurability of many malignancies. Advances in polarographic electrode technology have facilitated the in situ measurement of human tumor pO2. The optimal method of defining a "hypoxic" tumor is not ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bone Joint Surg Am · June 1994
We performed a prospective study of the results of treatment of primary cutaneous melanoma of the foot in 282 patients to determine if there were any factors that could predict survival. These patients were part of a group of 1018 patients who had primary ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · January 15, 1994
PURPOSE: The goals of this study were to determine whether magnetic resonance parameters (a) can identify early during therapy those patients most likely to respond to hyperthermia and radiotherapy, (b) can provide prior to or early during therapy informat ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 1994
PURPOSE: To enable prediction of tumor response to a particular treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The authors studied the value of hydrogen-1 T2 and phosphorus-31 magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopic metabolic determinations as indicators of prognosis in ...
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Journal ArticleMicrosurgery · 1993
In this retrospective analysis, we present our experience with two groups of patients who had long bone defects secondary to trauma or tumor resection and who were treated with a free vascularized fibular graft for skeletal reconstruction. Both groups were ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Surg · November 1992
During the years 1985 to 1989, 82 patients were included in the soft tissue sarcoma protocol. Preoperative irradiation (50-54 Gy) was performed in all patients before tumor extirpation. Microwave hyperthermia was performed in conjunction with radiation in ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · 1992
The lack of an unambiguous thermal dosimetry continues to impede progress in clinical hyperthermia. In an attempt to define better this dosimetry, a model based on the cumulative minutes during which arbitrary percentages of measured tumor temperature poin ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · July 1991
Twenty-one patients with 22 pathologic humeral fractures were seen between January 1977 and November 1988. All fractures were secondary to myeloma or metastatic disease. Primary bone tumors were not included. Nineteen of 22 fractures were treated with intr ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · June 1991
The purpose of this study was to assess the utility of tetracycline hydrochloride (HCl) labeling of the femoral head following acute intracapsular fracture of the femoral neck to indirectly assess femoral head viability and vascularity. A standard labeling ...
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Journal ArticleJ Neurosurg · March 1991
The authors report the case of a hemangiopericytoma arising in a sciatic nerve. It was found to be invasive within the epineurium but sparing surrounding tissues. Adequate resection required sacrifice of the nerve. Hemangiopericytomas can be added to the s ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bone Joint Surg Am · September 1990
The cases of eighteen patients who were treated for pyomyositis between 1970 and 1988 were evaluated. The diagnosis was often delayed because other primary diagnoses were considered, including muscle strain, synovitis, thrombophlebitis, and neoplasm, and b ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · March 1990
The authors studied the usefulness of hydrogen-1 T2 measurements and phosphorus-31 magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy as indicators of prognosis and monitors of response to therapy in a group of patients with soft-tissue sarcomas. All eight patients were ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Surg Pathol · February 1990
We present an unusual case of multicentric malignant fibrous histiocytoma of soft tissue. Over the past 24 years, a 67-year-old woman developed malignant fibrous histiocytoma in four different soft-tissue sites. There were two local recurrences of one of t ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 1990
Five patients with tumoral calcinosis were evaluated with radiography, bone scintigraphy, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The arthropathy of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease was seen in two of the patients a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bone Joint Surg Am · January 1990
In fifteen patients who had a subcapital fracture of the femoral neck (twelve displaced fractures and three non-displaced fractures), magnetic resonance imaging of the femoral head was done with two-dimensional Fourier transform spin-echo technique within ...
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Journal ArticleOrthop Clin North Am · October 1989
Treatment of diabetic foot pathology requires an accurate assessment of the etiologic factors involved. Dysvascular deterioration may be amenable to vascular reconstruction. When the vascular status cannot be improved, however, amputation is preferable to ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · March 1989
Review of clinical hyperthermia (HT) trial results shows that there previously has not been a robust model relating efficacy of HT treatments to characteristics of the temperature distribution. Lack of a model has been an impediment in Phase II trials; the ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · March 1, 1989
The role of adjuvant chemotherapy for osteosarcoma has been well defined. Recently, the use of preoperative chemotherapy has been further enhanced by the use of intraarterial cisplatin. The authors describe the use and results of systemic doxorubicin and i ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · January 1989
As part of an ongoing Phase II trial at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), patients with Stage IIB-IVA soft tissue sarcomas (STS) potentially amenable to wide local excision were treated with preoperative hyperthermia (HT) plus radiation therapy (RT), ...
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Journal ArticleJ Neurosurg · August 1988
The materials ordinarily used to reconstruct bone defects in the calvaria and facial bones either are difficult to shape, are partially resorbed by the body, or are likely to become infected if used near a contaminated area such as the frontal sinus. Calci ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · March 1988
Six cases of fractures of the polyethylene bearing insert of Bateman bipolar hip prostheses were observed in three patients at four to eight years after implantation. Three fractured prostheses were salvaged by replacement with new bearing inserts. In thre ...
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Journal ArticleRev Infect Dis · 1987
Primary infection of an extremity is an uncommon feature of actinomycosis and can readily be confused with actinomycetoma caused by aerobic actinomycetes such as Nocardia and Streptomyces. A case of primary actinomycosis of the leg is reported, and 35 case ...
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Journal ArticleN Engl J Med · July 4, 1985
We undertook a retrospective analysis of 26 patients with X-linked hypophosphatemic osteomalacia (or rickets), whose ages ranged from 1 to 62 years and who were from 11 different kindreds, to determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of a uniqu ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · June 1985
Although conventional therapy (pharmacologic doses of vitamin D and phosphorus supplementation) is usually successful in healing the rachitic bone lesion in patients with X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets, it does not heal the coexistent osteomalacia. Beca ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · May 1985
Although aluminum excess is an apparent pathogenetic factor underlying osteomalacia in dialysis-treated patients with chronic renal failure, the mechanism by which aluminum impairs bone mineralization is unclear. However, the observation that aluminum is p ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Endocrinol Metab · April 1985
Controversy exists over the role that PTH and extracellular fluid calcium concentration may play in modulation of the renal phosphate transport defect in X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets. In previous studies, administration of PTH to affected subjects res ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · April 1984
Five cases of axial skeletal osteoid osteomas were viewed with particular attention to the role of computed tomography (CT) as a key diagnostic tool in the evaluation of osteoid osteoma. The complex anatomy of the axial skeleton can make the diagnosis of o ...
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Journal ArticleMiner Electrolyte Metab · 1984
19 chronic renal failure patients underwent iliac crest bone biopsy prior to total parathyroidectomy with autotransplantation. The preoperative serum calcium concentration did not correlate with the number of osteoclasts/mm2 present on the preparathyroidec ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · February 1983
Prostaglandin A1 has a profound inhibitory effect on uridine incorporation into RNA of normal cartilage whereas N6-monobutyryladenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate is either stimulatory or without an effect. Sera from intact and growth hormone-treated hypop ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · September 1982
Electrical stimulation has been applied to sciatic nerves of patients to achieve sensory feedback after lower limb amputation for periods of up to six years. Patients used the sensory feedback device daily. Pain, infection and electrode displacement have n ...
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Journal ArticleCalcif Tissue Int · May 1982
The value of quantitative histomorphometric analysis of undecalcified stained sections of bone is widely recognized. Five micron thick sections have been regarded as essential to carry out this analysis, but their production requires expensive equipment. O ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Intern Med · January 1982
Five patients on maintenance dialysis had symptoms of osteomalacia, proven by biopsy, after parathyroidectomy. In all five patients clinical and radiographic manifestations of secondary hyperparathyroidism were present before surgery, and in two patients p ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Nephrol · 1982
Osteomalacia without marked elevations of parathyroid hormone (PTH) has been described in maintenance dialysis patients. The proposed etiology has centered upon the transfer of an environmental agent (aluminum) from the dialysis water system. The present r ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · October 1981
In three patients the diagnosis of osteomyelitis was made when computed tomography (CT) demonstrated gas within the medullary cavity of the involved bone. The diagnosis was clinically unsuspected in two of the patients before the CT examination, and none s ...
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Journal ArticleLab Invest · February 1981
Hyperostotic diseases caused by increased osteoblastic activity are poorly understood partially because a suitable animal model is not available for their study. In contrast, a hyperostotic disorder caused by defective osteoclasts (mammalian osteopetrosis) ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · November 1980
Although a defect in renal transport of phosphate seems well established as the primary abnormality underlying the pathogenesis of X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets and osteomalacia, several observations indicate that renal phosphate wasting and hypophosph ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bone Joint Surg Am · October 1980
Since 1971 we have used homologous and autogenous bone grafts to reinforce the medial acetabular wall when doing a total hip replacement in patients with painful protrusio acetabuli. Thirty-two patients have been followed for a minimum of two years, the lo ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · October 1980
The development of the upper end of the femur was determined from radiographic analysis of the hips in 191 children and a small series of cadaver specimens from young subjects, with special attention directed to the internal architecture. At birth, linearl ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Intern Med · August 1980
Hypophosphatemic osteomalacia that remits after resection of a coexisting tumor has been described in 35 patients. Because the associated neoplasms have been of mesenchymal origin, it has been inferred that this tumor-induced osteomalacia syndrome is uniqu ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · 1979
Renewed interest in vitamin D, over the past several years, has resulted in increased knowledge of (1) the metabolic pathways which result in production of an active metabolite, (2) the role of its various metabolities at target tissues, and (3) its intera ...
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Journal ArticleClin Orthop Relat Res · October 1978
Metastases to the hand are rare. Most frequently they result from carcinomas of the lung, breast or kidney. This is a case report of a rare peripheral metastatic lesion in a 24-year-old man with melanoma. There are no previously reported hand metastases fr ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bone Joint Surg Am · July 1978
Sixteen hundred and seventy-seven melanoma patients were treated at Duke University Medical Center from 1956 to 1976. Osseous metastases were more common than previously reported and occurred in 116 patients (6.9 per cent), most often in the axial skeleton ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Bone and Joint Surgery Series A · January 1, 1975
Compression of the ulnar nerve at the wrist,, near or in Guyon's canal, has been reported frequently, and many causes have been identified, but occupationally induced hypertrophy of the flexor carpi ulnaris muscle is not among them. This cause of ulnar ner ...
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