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melorheostosis

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melorheostosis /melo·rhe·os·to·sis/ (mel″ŏ-re″os-to´sis) a form of osteosclerosis, with linear tracks extending through a long bone; see rheostosis.
mel·o·rhe·os·to·sis (ml-rs-tss)
n.
Rheostosis confined to the long bones.

melorheostosis [mel″o-re″os-to´sis]
a form of osteosclerosis, with linear tracks extending through the long bones.

melorheostosis
a form of osteosclerosis, with linear tracks extending through the long bones.

melorheostosis
Lèri's disease An idiopathic defect of long bone growth, characterized by cortical thickening of long–tubular bones which, when stripped of muscle, simulates a candle with wax dribbled down a side Clinical Pain, limitation of movement, contraction and/or fusion of joint spaces, usually of one limb


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1-3) Radiologically, the differential diagnosis of OPK includes osteopathia striata, melorheostosis, tuberous sclerosis, sclerotic bone metastases, and osteoma (which may have similar clinical pictures but for which medical and orthopedic treatment may be necessary).
 
 
 
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