3 结果
A man in his mid thirties presented with lower-extremity weakness and spasticity because of a myelopathy caused by a rare disorder of bone known as melorheostosis. The primary pathology involved was compression of the cord at the cervicothoracic levels by dystrophic osseous formation within the
BACKGROUND
Current understanding of the clinical features of persons with melorheostosis is restricted primarily to individual case reports and small case series.
OBJECTIVE
To assess the clinical features of patients with melorheostosis treated at our institution from 1972 through
We report on a 46-year-old mother of Moroccan origin, suffering mainly from painful, swollen legs, and her 26-year-old son who had experienced intense pain in his legs, without fever, for approximately 3 years. They did not have dysmorphic features or abnormal gaits. Radiographic studies of the