{{Short description|Excessive bone growth}} {{Infobox medical condition (new) | name = Hyperostosis | synonyms = | image = Nervous and mental diseases (1908) (14591670608).jpg | caption = A human skull showing hyperostosis | pronounce = | field = | symptoms = | complications = | onset = | duration = | types = | causes = | risks = | diagnosis = | differential = | prevention = | treatment = | medication = | prognosis = | frequency = | deaths = }} '''Hyperostosis''' is an excessive growth of bone. It may lead to exostosis. It occurs in many musculoskeletal disorders and from use of drugs like Isotretinoin.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ellis |first1=Charles N. |last2=Pennes |first2=David R. |last3=Hermann |first3=Richard C. |last4=Blauvelt |first4=Andrew |last5=Martel |first5=William |last6=Voorhees |first6=John J. |date=June 1988 |title=Long-term radiographic follow-up after isotretinoin therapy |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0190962288701310 |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology |language=en |volume=18 |issue=6 |pages=1252–1261 |doi=10.1016/S0190-9622(88)70131-0|pmid=2968377 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Disorders featuring hyperostosis include:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hyperostosis (Concept Id: C0020492) |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/9366 |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |language=en}}</ref>
* Camurati-Engelmann disease, type 2 * Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, primary, autosomal recessive, 2 * Melorheostosis * Tumoral calcinosis, hyperphosphatemic, familial, 1 * Worth disease
[[File:Meningioma of the sagittal sinus isolated.jpg|thumb|Meningioma of the middle third of the sagittal sinus with large hyperostosis]]
==See also== * Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis * Hyperostosis frontalis interna * Infantile cortical hyperostosis * Porotic hyperostosis * SAPHO syndrome
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite journal |author=Stuart-Macadam P |title=Porotic hyperostosis: representative of a childhood condition |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=66 |issue=4 |pages=391–8 |date=April 1985 |pmid=3887936 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330660407 |bibcode=1985AJPA...66..391S }}<!--|access-date=2012-08-22--> *{{cite journal |vauthors=Suri D, Dayal D, Singh M |title=Infantile cortical hyperostosis |journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood |volume=90 |issue=7 |pages=711 |date=July 2005 |pmid=15970613 |pmc=1720499 |doi=10.1136/adc.2004.065334 |url=}} *{{cite journal |vauthors=Hayem G, Bouchaud-Chabot A, Benali K, etal |title=SAPHO syndrome: a long-term follow-up study of 120 cases |journal=Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=159–71 |date=December 1999 |pmid=10622680 |doi= 10.1016/S0049-0172(99)80027-4}} *{{cite journal |vauthors=MOORE S, CARR AD |title=Hyperostosis frontalis interna; two contrasting cases |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=148 |issue=3 |pages=199–200 |date=January 1952 |pmid=14880497 |doi= 10.1001/jama.1952.62930030004009b}}<!--|access-date=2012-08-22-->
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