title: Mandibular osteomyelitis and multiple skeletal complications in Albers-Schönberg disease.
abstract: Albers-Schönberg disease, or autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II, is the most common form of the rare disease, osteopetrosis. Mandibular osteomyelitis is a rare complication of the disease. A host of other skeletal complications may also occur. Mandibular osteomyelitis along with bilateral severe coxa vara and pars fracture is very rare in Albers-Schönberg disease. We present the occurrence of these complications in a 24-year-old man with Albers-Schönberg disease. His mandibular osteomyelitis was successfully treated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College, 138 AJC Bose Road, Kolkata 700014, West Bengal, India. drpartha73@gmail.com
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chattopadhyay
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Kundu
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Saha
authors.forename: R O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Karthak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000473:pathology*; D008336:Mandibular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D010022:Osteopetrosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography; D016896:Treatment Outcome