The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14757357912)

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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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Fig. 5. Patient, male, aged twenty-seven. Complains of dull pain in lower spine;. came on gradually during one and a half years. No history of sacroiliac disease. X-ray reveals bilateral obliteration of sacroiliac synchondroses, the destruction of articular surfaces, undoubtedly the result of a joint infection. erosion of the articular surface edges, which further ad\ance is shown by a materialnormally are uniform throughout, the decrease in the interarticular distance

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IM.. t>. P.ftirnt, 111.lie, aged tlilrt\-nr. \ague hist(u\ ot pain and di>c<inilnrt m back.No nijur\ or (jalhology of sacroiliac region. A-ray reveals complete loss t)t botlisacroiliac joints, usual shadow evidences of destructive joint process and infection ofarticular surlaces. interarticular distance now being appar- between the sacrum and ilium as the twoently increased. In no instance was the opposing surfaces approach each other, Sacroiliac Arthrosis Obliterans 193 because of loss, through absorption, of theintervening cartilage whicli has been sof-tened through disease and which eventuallydisappears, thus permitting the two bonesto come into direct contact with eachother. At this stage, the joint conditionis easily demonstrated by the .v-ray shad-ows. An advanced case will reveal a totalobHteration of the in\olved joint, a syn-arthrosis resulting, the two contiguousbones fusing into a single bone, in uni-lateral cases, while in bilateral involve-ment, the three bones j

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