Hyperostosis

Hyperostosis is an excessive growth of bone. It may lead to exostosis. It occurs in many musculoskeletal disorders and from use of drugs like Isotretinoin.

Disorders featuring hyperostosis include:

• Camurati-Engelmann disease, type 2
• Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, primary, autosomal recessive, 2
• Melorheostosis
• Tumoral calcinosis, hyperphosphatemic, familial, 1
• Worth disease

See also

• Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
• Hyperostosis frontalis interna
• Infantile cortical hyperostosis
• Porotic hyperostosis
• SAPHO syndrome

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