Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on January 8, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(2):155; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm261
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Re: Intravenous Bisphosphonate Therapy and Inflammatory Conditions or Surgery of the Jaw: A Population-Based Analysis
Affiliations of authors: Departments of Medicine (MK) and Oral Medicine (SE) and Diabetes Center (MK), Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Correspondence to: Mogher Khamaisi, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, Hadassah Hospital, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem 91240, Israel (e-mail: murir@hadassah.org.il).
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Wilkinson et al. (1) recently reported in the Journal that users of intravenous bisphosphonates had an increased risk of inflammatory conditions, osteomyelitis, and surgical procedures of the jaw and facial bones. The inflammatory condition investigated in this paper was bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws, which was first described in 2003 (2).
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