Tag: Osteosclerosis
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Skeletal fluorosis in a resettled refugee from Kakuma refugee camp.
“I suspected some contamination of the water of the much-frequented street pump in Broad Street, near the end of Cambridge Street”, said John Snow, about the contaminated water pump of the cholera outbreak of 1854, in London, UK.1 In September, 2015, a Somalian man aged 46 years presented to a refugee clinic within 1 month […]
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Results and conclusions of the National Toxicology Program’s rodent carcinogenicity studies with sodium fluoride.
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Effect of fluoride on osteoclast formation at various levels of receptor activator of nuclear factor Kappa-B ligand (RANKL).
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Periostitis deformans due to wine fluorosis.
Fluoric Arthropathies: Around joints, thick marginal osteophytes develop. In some instances, they grow to such an extent as to block joint movement (‘blocking arthrosis’). The joint block can also be induced by calcification of the periarticular ligament. The most common sites of articular involvement are the hips, the sacroiliac, elbow and knee joints. In older […]
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Fluorotoxic metabolic bone disease: an osteo-renal syndrome caused by excess fluoride ingestion in the tropics.