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Research Links

 

Index of over 350 Articles on  Melorheostosis (with synopsis of article contents)

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Melorheostosis:  description with x-rays

Illustrative x-ray, MRI, bone scan, photo examples

 

Definition, including 7 clinical signs

Brief description and illustrative x-rays

Diagnosis in arm with x-ray

Definition and diagnosis in knee

Four year old girl with lower extremity melorheostosis; x-rays

Lower extremity weakness and spasticity due to myelopathy caused by melorheostosis

Definition in English and French

 

Germline LEMD3 mutations are rare in sporadic patients with isolated melorheostosis.

 

Deactivating germline mutations in LEMD3 cause osteopoikilosis and Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome, but not sporadic melorheostosis.

 

 

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