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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Bone age
Bone age
Bone age is a way of describing the degree of maturation of child's bones. As a person grows from fetal life through childhood, puberty, and finishes growth as a young adult, the bones of the skeleton change in size and shape. These changes can be seen by x-ray. The "bone age" of a child is the average age at which children reach this stage of bone maturation. A child's current height and bone age can be used to predict adult height. At birth, only the metaphyses of the "long bones" are present. The long bones are those that grow primarily by elongation at an epiphysis at one end of the growing bone...
Bone age - List of case studies
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_3
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either stability or an initiation of tumor response, but bone scintigraphy that was performed 6 months later revealed an area of ... Patient's History Sex: F, Age: 66 years Diagnosis : Pulmonary heteroplasia ...
- Infiltrating Duct Carcinoma of Breast
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possibly by a course of LHRH-A , which at the current age should be of limited length 2c. In addition, the patient should ... staging procedures by chest and abdominal-pelvic CT, and bone scan, that will serve for base line ...
- PANCYTOPENIA OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
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of unknown etiology, which required blood transfusions. Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy showed a hypocellular bone marrow with trilineage maturation. The treatment include immunosuppressive ... - Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS): The age, pancytopenia, the high MCV and some myelodysplasia in the marrow ...
- Symptomatic Pancytopenia
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the symptomatic anemia, which required blood transfusions. Bone marrow aspiration revealed some myelodysplasia, and immune therapy has ... Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) : The age, pancytopenia, the high MCV and some myelodysplasia in the marrow – ...
- Metastatic well differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma in liver_2
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Sex: M,Age: 78 Diagnosis : Metastatic well differentiated ... small intestine – Normal March 2008 – Bone scan - Normal March 2008 – Somatostatin Scan – no ...
- MDS – Myelodysplastic Syndrome
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with predominant thrombocytopenia underwent a bone marrow biopsy that confirmed the diagnosis of Myelodysplastic syndrome ... pan-cytopenia, with predominant thrombocytopenia, a bone marrow biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), ... cell transplantation can be undertaken, although at the age of 74, the patient is older than the age cutoff set by most centers. ...
- Possible Vitamin D/ Parathyroid Hormone Abnormality_1
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Female, Age 51 Background : 1.) When ... her jaw have been operated on to remove dead or infected bone. Surgeon wondered she had osteoporosis. She had never taken fosamax. ...
- Left lumbosciatic pain from double disc protrusion
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persists. Surgery was not recommended in view of her young age. Despite the drug treatments, the patient still complains of strong pain in ... spine without contrast medium which showed: “Bone diameters in the spinal canal within normal limits. Spondylosis of the ...
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), with kariotype del(11)q(11)
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syndrome (MDS) with kariotype del(11)q(11) by a bone marrow biopsy, following a gradual pancytopenia. The patient complains ... cell transplantation can be undertaken, although at the age of 74, the patient is older than the age cutoff set by most centers. ...
- Neuroendocrine Neoplasia
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Sex: M, Age: 60 years Diagnosis : Neuroendocrine Neoplasia ... diagnosis, the following was performed: a total body bone scintigraphy, with negative results, and tests on the concentration of ...