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Hereditary Multiple Exostoses

Background

Hereditary Multiple Exostoses: Multiple Hereditary Exostoses; Multiple Osteochondromatosis; Diaphyseal Aclasis

This condition affects the skeleton and is thought to be present in more than one thousand individuals in over five hundred families in the UK.

Affected children and adolescents develop multiple bony spurs with a cap of cartilage (exostoses or osteochondromas) at the end of many bones - especially the long bones of the arms and legs.

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Medical text written May 1998 by Mr D E Porter. Last updated June 2007 by Mr D E Porter, Senior Lecturer & Hon. Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

 

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