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Direct Mouse Trauma/Burn Model of Heterotopic Ossification
Published on: August 6, 2015
Heterotopic ossification in the middle finger: a case report
Philip Ian G Barlaan1, Wing-Yuk Ip
1Division of Hand and Foot Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong University Medical Centre, 102 Pok FuLam Road, Hong Kong.
Abstract:
A case of heterotopic ossification developed after traumatic laceration of the middle finger. It is extremely rare for heterotopic ossification to locate in the finger. The diagnosis was accomplished with plain radiographs as well as with MRI and confirmatory study with histopathological microscopic examination which demonstrated nubbin of bone surrounded by fibrovascular connective tissue, and the marrow was predominantly fatty with prominent ectatic vessels and patchy mild lymphocytic infiltrate and gross appearance of partly calcified bony tissue.
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