Bone within a bone appearance
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Bone within a boneis a descriptive term applied to bones that appear to have another bone within them. There are numerous causes including :
- normal:
thoracic and lumbar vertebrae (in infants)
growth recovery lines (after infancy)
- sickle cell disease/thalassemia
- thorotrast (ghost vertebrae)
- autosomal dominant osteopetrosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- heavy metal ingestion (bismuth, lead, thorium)
- hypervitaminosis D
- Caffey's disease (infantile cortical hyperostosis)
- Gaucher's disease
- acromegaly
- post-radiation
- congenital syphilis
-<p><strong>Bone within a bone</strong> is a descriptive term applied to bones that appear to have another bone within them. There are numerous causes including :</p><ul>- +<p><a title="Bone with-in a bone appearance * Case sign" href="/articles/bone-within-a-bone-appearance-1"><strong>Bone within a bone</strong></a><a href="/articles/bone-with-in-a-bone-appearance-case-sign"> </a>is a descriptive term applied to <a title="Bone with-in a bone appearance * Case sign" href="/articles/bone-within-a-bone-appearance-1">bones that appear to have another bone within them</a>. There are numerous causes including :</p><ul>
-<a href="/articles/thorotrast">thorotrast</a> (<a title="Ghost vertebrae" href="/articles/ghost-vertebra">ghost vertebrae</a>)</li>- +<a href="/articles/thorotrast">thorotrast</a> (<a href="/articles/ghost-vertebra">ghost vertebrae</a>)</li>
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