A case of osteopetrosis with cervikal and lumbar pains

Fikret Unver; Dilek Onel; Sumer Ergun

Article Details

A case of osteopetrosis with cervikal and lumbar pains

Authors:

Fikret Unver | Dilek Onel | Sumer Ergun

Publisher:

Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Journal:

Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica 1976 Vol.10 Issue 4, pp.238-247

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/1976

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000816864

Frequency:

Bimonthly

eISSN:

1017-995X

pISSN:

1017-995X

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Abstract:

 

There has been reported above 200 cases in the world literature since Albers-Schönberg first described the disease in 1904. Osteopetrosis is a rare disease known with its hereditary character and a delay in the osteociastic activity. Thus the bone marrow  and primary spongiosa is occupied with primary bone tissue and as a result of this fragility of the bones occur. Diffuse medullary bone formation decreases hematopoietic activity and anemia results. The prognosis of the disease of which the etiology and treatment is unknown is usually good in moderate and mild cases. The case we have studied is a young man with symptoms from mild to moderate degrees ana without any complications such as anemia, fractures and degeneration of the cranial nerves. Since two years he had pains of neurogenic origin due to the density of bone in cervical and lumbar vertebrae.

 

Albers-Schönberg'in 1904 de hastalığı tarifinden beri dünya literatüründe 200'ü aşan vak'a tebliği vardır. Herediter karakter gösteren, nadir bir hastalık olan osteopetrosis de osteokiastik faaliyette bir gecikme vardır. Bu yüzden kemik iliği ve sponjiöz kemik dokusu primer kemikle istila edilmekte normal kemik yapısının bozulması neticesi kemikler frajil bir hale gelmektedir. Yaygın meduller  kemikleşme hemopoetik faaliyeti azaltmakta ve anemiye sebep olmaktadır. Etyolojisi ve tedavisi bilinmiyen  bu hastalığın prognozu orta ve hafif vak'alarda oldukça iyidir. Bizim vak'amız genç bir erkek olup hafif, orta vak'a grubundandır. Anemi, fraktür ve kafa çiftleri dejenerasyonu gibi komplikasyonları yoktur. İki yıldan beri servikal ve lomber vertebralarda kemik yoğunlaşmasına bağlı nörolojik orijinli ağrıları mevcuttur.

Article Details

A case of osteopetrosis with cervikal and lumbar pains

Authors: Fikret Unver | Dilek Onel | Sumer Ergun

Publisher: Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Journal: Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica 1976 Vol.10 Issue 4, pp.238-247

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 11/1976

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000816864

Frequency: Bimonthly

eISSN: 1017-995X

pISSN: 1017-995X

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Authors:

Fikret Unver | Dilek Onel | Sumer Ergun

Publisher:

Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Journal:

Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica 1976 Vol.10 Issue 4, pp.238-247

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/1976

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000816864

Frequency:

Bimonthly

eISSN:

1017-995X

pISSN:

1017-995X