Spinal cord injury: effect of thyrocalcitonin on periarticular bone formation in three subjects

Sodium fluoride 18F scintimetry was performed before and after 1 month of salmon thyrocalcitonin treatment of 3 spinal cord injured patients with periarticular ossification of the hips and knees. Thyrocalcitonin therapy caused a marked diminution of 18F uptake in 1 patient with long-standing periarticular bone of both hips. Clinically, the range of motion in this subject increased by 25 degrees and there was a marked decrease in pain locally. The results were, however, not duplicated in the 2 patients with periarticular bone formation of short duration.

[Hypertrophic osteodystrophy of the dog (author's transl)]

The clinical and radiological findings of 21 dogs with hypertrophic osteodystrophy are described. In three cases a detailed pathologico-anatomic examination was performed also. The dogs concerned were young animals of large breeds with clinical symptoms of lameness, fever, pain, and thickened metaphyses of the long bones. Radiologically the condition was characterised by enhancement of the metaphyses and periosteal new growths of the bone. The pathologico-anatomic examination revealed a disturbed endochondral and periosteal ossification. Overnutrition as a possible cause of the condition is discussed.

Myositis ossificans progressiva (Munchmeyer's disease). Brief review with report of two cases treated with corticosteroids and observed for 16 years

Two cases of myositis ossificans progressiva were treated by corticosteroids. In one case the course of the disease was not affected. In the other case, after 5 years' progression of the disease without treatment, progression ceased, either because of or in spite of corticosteroid treatment, and there has been a remission of 16 years, up to the time of writing.