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Coalescing expansile skeletal disease: Delineation of an extraordinary osteopathy involving the IFITM5 mutation of osteogenesis imperfecta type V.
Bone - 1 Apr 2021
Whyte Michael P, Aronson James, McAlister William H, Weinstein Robert S, Wenkert Deborah, Clements Karen L, Gottesman Gary S, Madson Katherine L, Stolina Marina, Bijanki Vinieth N, Plotkin Horacio, Huskey Margaret, Duan Shenghui, Mumm Steven
Abstract excerpt
In 2003, we briefly reported the remarkable osteopathy of a 12-year-old boy who at age two months began fracturing his limbs with subsequent hyperplastic callus formation and expansion and fusion of appendicular bones. By age ten years he had coalesced his lumbosacral spine, pelvis, femurs, and leg and foot bones as a single structure. Computed tomography of expanded bone revealed a thin cortical shell,...
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