RESUMO
Roentgen pathology in Jamaica includes, inter alia, skeletal changes caused by avitaminoses, infectious diseases such as syphillis or tuberculosis, and sickle cell anemia. This form of anaemia may produce also renal papillary necrosis. Worm infection with stronglyoides stercoralis causes extensive inflammatory changes in the small bowel. Malformations of the urinary tract and bones are relatively common. (AU)
Assuntos
Radiografia , Jamaica , Deficiência de Vitaminas/complicações , Sífilis/complicações , Tuberculose Osteoarticular/complicações , Anemia Falciforme/complicações , Doenças Ósseas , Sistema Urinário/anormalidades , Strongyloides/patogenicidadeRESUMO
One hundred and six cases of skeletal tuberculosis seen in the University College Hospital of the West Indies have been reviewed: The disease often has an acute onset, but if this is survived, the progress is remarkably slow and the prognosis slow. Treatment is therefore primarily conservative, operation being employed only for stabilisation, correction of deformity, or drainage of abscesses. However, direct attack on the diseased vertabral body has been done in paraplegics, with remarkably satisfactory results. Advanced disease of the hip joint may also be treated by curettage of the lesion itself, combined with corrective osteonomy. The importance of early diagnosis has been emphasized. Deformity and disability can be prevented by starting treatment early in the course of the disease. (Summary).
Assuntos
Humanos , Tuberculose Osteoarticular/epidemiologia , Tuberculose Osteoarticular/complicações , Tuberculose Osteoarticular/terapiaRESUMO
One hundred and six cases of skeletal tuberculosis seen in the University College Hospital of the West Indies have been reviewed: The disease often has an acute onset, but if this is survived, the progress is remarkably slow and the prognosis is good. Treatment is therefore primarily conservative, operation being employed only for stabilisation, correction of deformity, or drainage of abscesses. However, direct attack on the diseased vertebral body has been done in paraplegics, with remarkably satisfactory results. Advanced disease of the hip joint may also be treated by curretage of the lesion itself, combined with corrective osteotomy. The importance of early diagnosis has been emphasized. Deformity and disability can be prevented by starting treatment early in the course of the disease. (Summary)
