[Radiation therapy in treatment of the sclerotic form of pathological rearrangement of bone tissue of the lower extremities]. / Primenenie luchevoi terapii pri lechenii skleroticheskoi formy patologicheskoi perestroiki kostnoi tkani nizhnikh konechnostei.

An analysis was done of treatment of 77 servicemen with a sclerotic form of pathological rearrangement of bones of the inferior limbs. Used in the above subjects was oteoscintillography that promoted the accuracy of diagnosis and allowed the study of the time-related course of the process in bones, which measure permitted correcting the therapeutic regimen designed to deal with the pathology under consideration. The complex of conservative treatment was supplemented by a course of gamma-radiation therapy in a cumulative dose of 1.6 Gy, which measure has been shown to yield better results as compared with the control group of patients.