[Periostal hypertrophic osteopathy of bones (long bones) in colitis ulcerosa in adolescents (author's transl)].
The article reports on a 14-year old girl with periostal new formation of bones at the long bones of the lower arms, the femora and the lower legs the individual phalanges and metacarpalia after colitis ulcerosa which had lasted for several years and had progressed stagewise. After a clinically recorded new attack the periostal new formations of bone progressed. Some time after the last attack of colitis the periostal changes in the bones partially receded. The article discusses the hypothetic explanations aiming at interpreting the pathogenesis of hypertrophic osteoarthropathies and periostoses, as given in the literature.
D000293:Adolescent; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology
Periostale hypertrophische Osteopathie an den Röhrenknochen bei Colitis ulcerosa im jugendlichen Alter.