Identifier: americanjournroen08ameruoft (find matches)
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
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sted with the destructionin the areas of inflammation where lacunaeform. Figure 8 is of a cross section of anulna showing marked eccentric atrophy anddilated haversian canals, the result of disuse,seven months after excision of a more dis- FiG. 6. Osteomyelitis of tiliia, fifty-four days dura-tion, with (a) rarefying osteitis, (b) sequestrumformation and beginning regional atrophy in thenon-osteomyelitic portions. tally located segment of the bone for sar-coma. Figure 9 shows the histologic appear-ance of a markedly atrophied cortex in thevicinity of an infected compound fractureof nine months duration. It shows smoothabsorption by fibroblastic osteoclasts alongthe surfaces of the lamellae. In general, the presence of large numbers of lacunae is moreindicative of inflammatory action than ofsimple atrophy of disuse. Tuberculosis.—Tuberculosis usually pro-duces localized osteitis, diffuse tuberculousosteomyelitis of the shaft being a compara-tively rare occurrence. The metaphyseal re-
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