Leukemia Pneumonia Osteopathies High Blood Pressure Kwashiorkor Filariasis Asbestosis Atypical Moles Stomach Klinefelter syndrome Thrombosis Aortic regurgitation

Hypertrophic Osteopathy

Source: www.ivis.org
Topic: Osteopathies
Download: Click here!

Sort Desciption: Textbook of Small Animal Orthopaedics. Treatment Hypertrophic osteopathy is a pathologic disease process, secondary in nature, which most commonly occurs in humans and in dogs; ...

Content Inside:
Hypertrophic Osteopathy In: Textbook of Small Animal Orthopaedics, C. D. Newton and D. M. Nunamaker (Eds.) Publisher: International Veterinary Information Service (www.ivis.org), Ithaca, New York, USA. Hypertrophic Osteopathy ( 1-Jan-1985 ) T.M. Lenehan and A. W. Fetter ! Clinical Presentation ! Radiographic Findings ! Pathogenesis ! Pathology ! Treatment Hypertrophic osteopathy is a pathologic disease process, secondary in nature, which most commonly occurs in humans and in dogs; it has also been noted to occur in the horse, cow, sheep, cat, fowl, and various other more exotic species (11,27,38,44,45,48,52,56) Initially described in humans in the late 1800s by Marie(34) and Bamberger,(4) subsequent reports of a similar disease affecting the dog were soon to be found in the European veterinary literature.(3,l0,2l,39) The disease did not receive notice in the English veterinary literature, however, until the 1920s in Great Britain.(26,27,55,57) Initially described in the dog as a hypertrophic osteoarthropathy related to tuberculosis, its name has changed through the years with increased understanding of the diseases basic pathophysiology and varied primary etiologies.(3,10,51)Thus, it has been referred to as osteoporosis deformans,(51) hyperplastic osteoperiostitis,(51) tuberculosis osteopathy,(39,40,51) Maries disease of the dog,(l3) achropachia,(l6) hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA),(5,l8) pulmonary osteoarthropathy (POA), (1,35) hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPOA),(I3,22,4l) hypertrophic pulmonary osteopathy (HPO),(53) and hypertrophic osteopathy (HO),(33,54) among other terms.(28,48,55) In the dog the disease is characterized by bilaterally symmetrical, nonedematous soft tissue swellings affecting primarily the distal portions of all four limbs. Insidious in onset and often mistaken for early arthritis, the initial soft tissue swellings are soon accompanied by a diffuse periosteal new-bone formation, which may ultimately affect all the bones of ...

Name (required)

E-mail (required - never shown publicly)

URI (optional)

Your Comment

Verification Code

© 2007-2009 HealthPDF.org | Design by Ganesh Gunasegaran
Privacy Policy

All files and contents mentioned are the property of their respective owners. This page consists of a compilation of public information, commonly available on the internet, at multiple sites, as well as official websites. No information on this page is guaranteed to be correct, and any data contained here may be erroneous.