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. 2024 Oct 14;108(1):88.
doi: 10.5334/jbsr.3752. eCollection 2024.

Melorheostosis Involving the Hip Joint

Antoine Vandendriessche  1   2 , Filip Vanhoenacker  2   3   4
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Melorheostosis Involving the Hip Joint

Antoine Vandendriessche et al. J Belg Soc Radiol. .

Abstract

Teaching point: Melorheostosis is a rare sclerosing bone dysplasia, characterized by sclerosis at the periosteal and/or endosteal side of the cortex, causing undulating thickening of the bony contour resembling "dripping candle wax."

Keywords: Leri’s disease; Melorheostosis; Sclerosing bone dysplasia.

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The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Figures

Conventional radiography of the right hip in exorotation (A) and AP (B)
Figure 1
Conventional radiography of the right hip in exorotation (A) and AP (B).
CT of the right hip with coronal (A) and oblique axial (B) images
Figure 2
CT of the right hip with axial oblique (A) and coronal (B) images.
MRI of the right hip with axial (A), coronal (B) and axial images after administration of IV‑contrast (C)
Figure 3
MRI of the right hip with axial (A), coronal (B) and axial images after administration of IV‑contrast (C).
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