(1) In our case, ostitis leprosa multiplex cystica, an early, specific bone lesion, was predominant.
(2) Posttraumatic ostitis occurred in 4.9 per cent of the cases.
(3) After treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics it was suffered from Candida albicans (Meningitis with Hydrocephalus internus, Chorioretinitis and Ostitis).
(4) Certain parameters of humoral and cellular immunity were observed in patients with staphylococcal chronic ostitis and carbunculosis treated with autovaccines.
(5) The ostitis deformans Paget in the metacarpal bone is a rarity.
(6) At autopsy only renal fibrous ostitis was still demonstrable.
(7) Quinolones are one of the drugs of choice which may be successful in the treatment of staphylococcal and gram-negative chronic osteomyelitis which are resistant to classical treatment and also the drug of choice in the treatment of septic arthritis and ostitis.
(8) In one case persistent posttraumatic ostitis resulted in partial loss of a flap necessitating further reconstructive attempts.
(9) Furthermore, a case of chronic ostitis localized in the symphyseal area is described, the clinical symptoms of which were resembling to the cortical osteoid, a special kind of sclerosing osteomyelitis.
(10) In diseased subjects other than those with ostitis (especially those with arthrosis temporomandibularis), the incidence of M. salivarium was higher than that of M. orale, whereas the former occurred about as frequently as the latter in the controls.
(11) It has been accompanied by subsidence of clinical symptoms of ostitis in 13 patients and a marked decrease of intensity of the inflammatory process in 4 other patients.
(12) A review of necrotising external otitis, a relatively unknown and dangerous disease, brings out that, initially, it has three characteristics: a granulating necrotising ostitis of the external meatus, extreme pain and a yellowish green secretion.
(13) After elimination of general causes and after failure of conservative treatment, during revision the following local causes were revealed: relapse of cholesteatoma in 44%, inflammation of the residual or repneumatized spaces in 41%, ostitis of the long process of the incus in 10% and inflammation in the divided trepanation cavities in 5%.
(14) 17 local muscle flaps were used to cover soft tissue defects in 13 open fractures (1 degree to 4 degrees) of the lower limb and in four patients with chronic ostitis associated with instable scar forming.
(15) MR tomography proved superior to the conventional methods in demonstration of separate fragments and inflammatory changes in the bone on examining 11 pathological elbow joints: congenital malformation, osteochondritis dissecans, ostitis, ulnar and radial nerve lesions, completely healed radius fracture and epicondylitis of the radial and ulnar humerus.
(16) Report of a 8 month old girl with a BCG-Ostitis in the head of the left humerus.
(17) A long persisting chronic recurring ostitis disturbs above all the differentiated conversion of fibrous bone into strong lamellar bone.
(18) Ostitis or osteomyelitis in the bone itself was present in 67.5%.
Otitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(2) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(3) The unit was used to treat 110 patients with chronic purulent middle otitis.
(4) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
(5) In severely affected children who have chronic otitis media with effusion resistant to medical therapy, adenoidectomy is an effective treatment.
(6) The material consisted of serially sectioned eustachian tubes of 26 normal temporal bones and four pathologic temporal bones, three of them with simple chronic otitis media and one with cholesteatoma.
(7) The current medical management of children with chronic suppurative otitis media without cholesteatoma unresponsive to local treatment and oral antibiotics is intravenous antibiotic therapy in the hospital setting.
(8) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(9) The use of homografts appears to be a promising method of repairing the sequelae of chronic otitis.
(10) Three cases of malignant external otitis with varied clinical causes are presented.
(11) A review of the 20th century English-language literature has produced a total of 320 cases of tuberculous otitis media or otomastoiditis, of which a surprising 93 cases have been reported in the 5-year period 1986-1990.
(12) The rate of surgery reached a level, among 3-year-old children in particular (25.0 per 1000 cases of otitis among boys, 23.9 per 1000 cases of otitis among girls), that some authors have termed "epidemic."
(13) These infections include chronic otitis media, chronic sinusitis and mastoiditis, chronic recurrent tonsillitis and lung abscesses.
(14) Glomus tumors in children may be hidden by otitis media and appear more likely to be endocrine active.
(15) The major pathogens causing acute otitis media (AOM) are Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, with Moraxella catarrhalis, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus less frequently isolated.
(16) The mothers of children who experienced six or more episodes of otitis media in the first 2 years of life rated their children as significantly more demanding at age two and at follow-up 6 months later than did the mothers of children who experienced no more than one episode of the illness.
(17) Amoxicillin-clavulanate potassium is effective in vitro against all bacterial pathogens causing acute otitis media and has been reported to be effective when given twice daily for urinary tract infections, acute otitis media and respiratory tract infections.
(18) The round window niche and membrane can be involved in clinical problems including perilymphatic fistulas, sensorineural hearing loss in otitis media, and a variety of others.
(19) If a chronic inflammation in the middle ear is suspected, HRCT is the study of choice to differentiate cholesteatoma from chronic otitis media.
(20) Although significantly higher than in uninfected children, auditory canal temperatures of children with acute otitis media reflected elevated rectal temperatures and not differences in auditory canal temperatures between ears.