The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14757503972)

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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society

Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays

Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas

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rickets; is usually traumatic in origin: In acute scurvy; ancl the proliferative type of cases of this lesion the .\-ray shows no bone tumors. changes in the outline of the affected Proliferative Lesions Due to Fractures, bone, even though considerable swelling In fractures the fragments may be dis- is present clinically. In subacute and placed and the periosteum stripped up chronic cases, a faint shadow appears or torn away from the shaft. The perios- along the shaf^t, due to the deposit of lime teum as a result of this trauma may salts in the thickened periosteum. 593 594 Roentgen-Ray Study of Non-Luctic Periosteal Bone Lesions Local injuiN nia\ jjeinm tiir access andfavor the production of pyogenic micro-organisms, by producing tissue damage.Such a condition may give rise to an osteo-niyelitic process. But after reviewing alarge number of radiograms, and the his-tories of patients showing .v-ray e\idenccof ;3eriostitis, e\cn though the onset ofthe illness in manv cases dated liom a

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I. l-racturcs ol the lower end of tile leimir ol six toeight weeks slandirif!;, showing rather extensiveperiosteal changes; line of fracture is visible, andalignment is good. trauma, we are unable to lind a case oftraumatic periostitis, without e\ idence ofsecondar\- infeclit)n. Periosteal Cbajiiies Dw to Osteomyelitis.Osteomyelitis may occur spontaneously,and it is often accompanied by a per-iostitis, due ill the majority of cases tostaphylococcus aureus and albus. Thestreptococcus may also give rise to osteo-myelitis. Trauma is a common predisposing cause. hi)ur\ ma\ jjroduce an area oflowered resistance and fa\or the entranceof microorganisms directly by means of awound through the blood stream, or froma focus of suppuration in the skin, thesubcutaneous or tiie deeper tissues. Per-haps at least (>ne half of the cases willgi\e a history of iiijurN. This type ismost often seen in the young. Growingtissue is more easily afTected by micro-organisms than is mature tissue, andosteomye

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