Tularami Und Osteomyelitis (Osteomyelitis Bone Infection) (German only, no English)

Our plain-English summary of Tularami Und Osteomyelitis (Osteomyelitis Bone Infection) (German only, no English) (1959).

The study

• Published: 1959
• Type of article: Journal article
• Our copy: from Johns-Manville's own medical library. The article is still under copyright, so we describe it here rather than post it.

In plain English

This German-language article from the Medical University Clinic in Kiel is about tularemia, an infectious disease, and osteomyelitis, a bone infection, not asbestos. The supplied text is incomplete. Its first part is the end of a different article, on asbestosis in shipyard insulators, and is not summarized here. Only the tularemia article's opening is included in the supplied text. It described a fur trader referred to the Kiel clinic on 1 October 1958 for severe pain between the shoulder blades. By the patient's account, back and shoulder pain had begun in May 1958 and fever followed. The patient reported that blood tests at the district hospital in Husum had established tularemia. He also said fever and back pain returned after an improvement, in July and August and again from late September. Earlier spine X-rays had reportedly shown no change. On admission, the author recorded a clear hump (gibbus) at the third thoracic vertebra, painful under compression. An X-ray showed a spindle-shaped, apple-sized soft-tissue shadow at the third to sixth thoracic vertebrae. The text ends before further findings or conclusions.

We wrote this plain-English summary from the full article with the help of AI, and a second AI model checked each sentence against the article. It is not the authors' wording; the abstract and the article are their own account.

What the study did and found

• Design: Case report (single patient), judging from the opening included in the supplied text
• Who was studied: One fur trader admitted to the Medical University Clinic in Kiel, Germany, on 1 October 1958. His age is unreadable in the scanned text.
• Exposure: No asbestos exposure is described in this article. The patient reported that tularemia had been diagnosed by blood tests at the district hospital in Husum.
• Main results:
  • According to the patient's history, earlier X-rays of his spine, taken repeatedly before admission, had shown no change.
  • On admission the patient had a clear gibbus (hump) at the third thoracic vertebra that was painful under compression.
  • An X-ray dated 6 October 1958 showed a spindle-shaped, apple-sized soft-tissue shadow at the level of the third to sixth thoracic vertebrae.

Topics

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Insulator.

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