Bone within a bone appearance
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Bone within a bone is 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
- autosomal dominant osteopetrosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- heavy metal ingestion (bismuth, lead, thorium)
- hypervitaminosis D
- Caffey disease (infantile cortical hyperostosis)
- Gaucher disease
- acromegaly
- post-radiation
- congenital syphilis
- thorotrast (ghost vertebrae)
- oxalosis
-<li>growth recovery lines (after infancy)</li>- +<li>
- +<a title="Growth recovery lines" href="/articles/growth-arrest-lines">growth recovery lines</a> (after infancy)</li>
-<li>heavy metal ingestion (bismuth, <a title="Lead poisoning" href="/articles/lead-poisoning-1">lead</a>, thorium)</li>- +<li>heavy metal ingestion (bismuth, <a href="/articles/lead-poisoning-1">lead</a>, thorium)</li>
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