Hyperostosis Explained

Hyperostosis is an excessive growth of bone. It may lead to exostosis. It occurs in many musculoskeletal disorders.

Disorders featuring hyperostosis include:^[1]

• 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

References

• Stuart-Macadam P . Porotic hyperostosis: representative of a childhood condition . . 66 . 4 . 391–8 . April 1985 . 3887936 . 10.1002/ajpa.1330660407 .
• Suri D, Dayal D, Singh M . Infantile cortical hyperostosis . . 90 . 7 . 711 . July 2005 . 15970613 . 1720499 . 10.1136/adc.2004.065334 .
• Hayem G, Bouchaud-Chabot A, Benali K, etal . SAPHO syndrome: a long-term follow-up study of 120 cases . . 29 . 3 . 159–71 . December 1999 . 10622680 . 10.1016/S0049-0172(99)80027-4.
• MOORE S, CARR AD . Hyperostosis frontalis interna; two contrasting cases . . 148 . 3 . 199–200 . January 1952 . 14880497 . 10.1001/jama.1952.62930030004009b.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hyperostosis (Concept Id: C0020492) . 2023-11-30 . www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov . en.