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 /
thalassemiathalassaemia - 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>normal:<ul>- +<li>normal<ul>
-<a href="/articles/sickle-cell-disease">sickle cell disease</a> / <a href="/articles/thalassaemia">thalassemia</a>- +<a href="/articles/sickle-cell-disease">sickle cell disease</a> / <a href="/articles/thalassaemia">thalassaemia</a>
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