Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to S Sheward.
Platelike osteoma cutis is a rare lesion that is most often congenital. An 85-year-old man developed a plate, or sheet, of subcutaneous bone in an area previously affected by morphea. The sheet of bone was visualized with a variety of imaging technics, including xerography, computed tomography, and radionuclide bone scans.
After one week of nonspecific symptoms, pneumonia and an extremely tender and enlarged cervical lymph node developed in a 12-year-old girl who lived in an area of New Mexico known to have plague-infected rodents. Cultures from an aspirate of the node, her sputum, and blood all showed growth of Yersinia pestis. She was treated successfully with aminoglycosides and tetracycline. As the pneumonia resolved, areas of consolidation were replaced by cavitary lesions.