MELORHEOSTOSIS AT LEFT LOWER LIMB OF A 22 YEARS OLD FEMALE: A RARE CASE

Abstract

Sclerosing bone dysplasias are skeletal abnormalities of varying severity with a wide range of radiologic, clinical, and genetic features. It is divided into Hereditary and Non-hereditary. Types of hereditary sclerosing bone dysplasia include osteopetrosis, osteopoikilosis, osteopathia striata, progressive diaphyseal dysplasia, hereditary multiple diaphyseal sclerosis, hyperostosis corticalis generalisata. Nonhereditary dysplasias include intramedullary osteosclerosis, melorheostosis, and overlap syndromes.1 Our case report below describe about Melorheostosis of the lower limb.

Keywords

• Melorheostosis
• Sclerosing bone dysplasias
• skeletal abnormalities