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Bone Response to Damage (view source)
Revision as of 17:18, 27 February 2011
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==Changes to normal structure==
===Changes to normal structure===
===Damage to Periosteum===
*Invokes a hyperplastic reaction of the inner layer
*Is painful
*Exostoses can remodel or remain
Lifting of periosteum causes new bone formation below
Circumferential incision (e.g. during [[Bones Fractures - Pathology|fracture]])
*Longitudinal bone growth results
*May be only on one side where periosteum is damaged
**Used by surgeons to treat [[Bones Developmental - Pathology#Angular limb deformity|angular limb deformities]]
===Physis (Growth plate)===
===Physis (Growth plate)===