[Comparative assessment of mineral metabolism in shoulders and crura in patients with osteomyelitis.].

Chronic osteomyelitis in long tubular bones is generally aggravated by metabolic imbalance in patients' organisms affecting mineral metabolism. It is critically important that the extent of this imbalance should be determined prior to surgical intervention to choose optimal methodology, proper monitoring of recovery and adequate prognostication of final results. With this in mind a comparative assessment has been carried out to shed light on the intensity of mineral metabolism in the blood serum of patients suffering from osteomyelitis in their shoulders and crura.

[Bone quality of lower limbs in patients with chronic osteomyelitis aged over 60 years according to multi-slice computed tomography.].

Radiography and multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) were used to examine 30 patients with chronic osteomyelitis of lower limb whose age was over 60 years. There were more male patients with posttraumatic osteomyelitis of tibia. 16 patients were treated for chronic osteomyelitis for more than 5 years and 9 patients for more than 15 years.