ABSTRACT
Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis is characterized clinically and radiologically by multiple, sometimes symmetrical, infectious bone lesions and a prolonged course over several years with relapses and new lesions. The distribution of the osteolytic bone lesions follows the pattern of acute haematogenous osteomyelitis in infancy and childhood. The aetiology and pathogenesis of this disease is unclear. A 5-year-old girl with this disease and 19 similar cases from the literature are reviewed.
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Osteomyelitis/diagnostic imaging , Child, Preschool , Chronic Disease , Female , Femur/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Osteolysis/diagnostic imaging , Radiography , Recurrence , Talus/diagnostic imaging , Tibia/diagnostic imagingABSTRACT
Fifty patients with testicular tumor were subjected to computer tomography, lymphography, cavography, and retrograde phlebography of the left renal and testicular veins followed by urography. The yield of computer tomography in detecting metastases of the iliac, lumbar and thoracolumbar regions was compared with that of the other examinations, and was particularly high in the upper part of the retroperitoneal space.