. Annals of surgery. tz was able to obtain atautopsy the specimen which he illustrated. Glimm observedin a male, aged 25, a similar condition; there was a history oftrauma to the right tibia eighteen months before; the traumamust have been a considerable one, because the patient wasconfined to bed three weeks, and the swelling never disap-peared. At the exploratory operation there was a periostealbone shell of 3 mm. thickness, and a cavity filled with two cases are of interest in studying the differentialdiagnosis of periosteal fomiations. Ossifying periostitis mayfollow trauma and


. Annals of surgery. tz was able to obtain atautopsy the specimen which he illustrated. Glimm observedin a male, aged 25, a similar condition; there was a history oftrauma to the right tibia eighteen months before; the traumamust have been a considerable one, because the patient wasconfined to bed three weeks, and the swelling never disap-peared. At the exploratory operation there was a periostealbone shell of 3 mm. thickness, and a cavity filled with two cases are of interest in studying the differentialdiagnosis of periosteal fomiations. Ossifying periostitis mayfollow trauma and is very frequent in syphilis. There is alsoan ossifying periosteal sarcoma which is relatively more malignant periosteal sarcomas may be associatedwith bone formation. I have had a recent observation of thiskind. So far I have been able to note only these two cases ofDeetz and Glimm in which cyst formation due to haematomahas been present in the traumatic ossifying periostitis, and I ^ C a O33 •-I p D*0. ^ X ^


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