Radiography and radio-therapeutics (1917) (14571590017)

Identifier: radiographyradio01knox (find matches)
Title: Radiography and radio-therapeutics
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928
Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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itis,probably tuberculous in origin. is shown in Fig. 142. The disease may show itself in the spine subsequentto typhoid fever. The joint in the vicinity of the bone may becomeinvolved. (See Plate XXXIX. d.) Tuberculous Disease of Bone.—This form of disease of bone isfrequently met with in X-ray examinations. Bones may be affected in twoways by tuberculosis. The periosteum or the cancellous tissue may beprimarily involved. Tuberculous Periostitis, or specific inflammation of the periosteum, ismet with. Caseation and suppuration are likely to follow, frequently lead-ing to the formation of abscesses, and, later, of discharging sinuses. Theinflammation may result in a thickening of the layers of bone and a shuttingin of the products of suppuration, hence, if situated near a joint, the pusmay burrow under the dense bone and invade the joint. Tuberculous Osteitis always arises in cancellous tissue, and it affects theshort bones or the shafts or ends of the long bones. The short bones of
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