Melorheostosis: a rare entity: a case report

Melorheostosis is a rare entity belonging to the group of sclerotic bone dysplasias. Described for the first time in 1922 by Leri, it remains imperfectly known as clinical presentations are highly variable, and the etiological diagnosis is not fully elucidated. We report a case of polyostoticmelorhe...

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Autores principales: Kherfani, Abdelhakim, Mahjoub, Hachem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25489356
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.18.251.4661
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description Melorheostosis is a rare entity belonging to the group of sclerotic bone dysplasias. Described for the first time in 1922 by Leri, it remains imperfectly known as clinical presentations are highly variable, and the etiological diagnosis is not fully elucidated. We report a case of polyostoticmelorheostosis for which radiological investigations were complete, in order to study this disease.
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spelling pubmed-42582172014-12-08 Melorheostosis: a rare entity: a case report Kherfani, Abdelhakim Mahjoub, Hachem Pan Afr Med J Case Report Melorheostosis is a rare entity belonging to the group of sclerotic bone dysplasias. Described for the first time in 1922 by Leri, it remains imperfectly known as clinical presentations are highly variable, and the etiological diagnosis is not fully elucidated. We report a case of polyostoticmelorheostosis for which radiological investigations were complete, in order to study this disease. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4258217/ /pubmed/25489356 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.18.251.4661 Text en © Hachem Mahjoub et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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