Treatment of osteitis pubis with corticotropin and cortisone; report of two cases.

摘要: THE TREATMENT of osteitis pubis is in the process being changed at present time. After introduction retropubic surgery into this country, by Dr. Terrence Millen, number cases reported literature appeared to increase. In many clinics, however, operation was gradually abandoned because painful complication. Treatment, for most part, symptomatic, and results were not satisfactory. 1946 corticotropin (ACTH) introduced medicine treatment rheumatoid, arthritic, allied diseases. Soon thereafter cortisone Kendell Hench similar The recent application these two drugs therapy has given promise miraculous results, it hoped that incapacitating disease will eventually be controlled before becomes disabling. etiology unknown, but believed