Difference between revisions of "Ectopic Ossification"
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*Usually clinically insignificant | *Usually clinically insignificant | ||
*'''Heterotopic bone''' | *'''Heterotopic bone''' | ||
Latest revision as of 13:28, 3 March 2011
- Production of bone in unusual location
- Contrast with ectopic mineralisation
- Usually clinically insignificant
- Heterotopic bone
- Spicules of bone form in the lungs of older dogs and cattle
- Clinically insignificant
- Periarticular osteophyte
- Fibrodysplasia ossificans - usually simmetrical ossification of neck, dorsum, groin and extremities of cats
- May interfere with nervous or joint function
- Metaplastic bone does not have to be ectopic (e.g. at tendon insertions)