osteolysis/potassium

Idiopathic carpotarsal osteolysis is 1 of the rare types of disappearing bone diseases characterized by painful limitation of movement and deformity of the wrist and tarsal joints, and associated with frequent episodes of joint inflammation and a radiographic appearance of osteolysis. Reported here

METHODS An 18-year-old mare was evaluated for an oral mass that developed after extraction of a broken incisor. RESULTS An ulcerated, firm, darkly pigmented, approximately 5-cm-diameter spherical mass involved the gingiva lateral and dorsal to the right first to third maxillary incisors. Osteolysis

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of counterface roughness and lubricant on the morphology of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) wear debris generated in laboratory wear tests, and to compare this with debris isolated from explanted tissue. Laboratory tests

The size and morphology of particulate wear debris retrieved from tissues around 18 failed total knee replacements (TKR) were characterized. Interfacial membranes from nine cemented and nine uncemented TKR were harvested from below the tibial components during revision surgery. Wear debris were

We present a patient with prostate cancer who developed symptomatic hypocalcemia while taking oral clodronate for painful bony metastases. He had a past history of a bowel resection for Crohn's disease, and, although he was normocalcemic prior to taking clodronate, it is likely that the surgery had

Severe hypercalcemia is a potentially life-threatening complication of several diseases. Most commonly it is caused by cancers that enhance bone resorption. Impaired renal calcium excretion resulting from a combination of volume contraction and calcium-induced renal injury (nephrocalcinosis) plays a