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=== Clinic ===
=== Clinic ===
An '''exostosis''', also known as a '''bone spur''', is the formation of new bone on the surface of a bone. Exostoses can cause chronic pain ranging from mild to debilitatingly severe, depending on the shape, size, and location of the lesion. It is most commonly found in places like the ribs, where small bone growths form, but sometimes larger growths can grow on places like the ankles, knees, shoulders, elbows and hips. Very rarely are they on the skull.


Exostoses are sometimes shaped like spurs, such as calcaneal spurs.
* Also known as a '''bone spur''', is the formation of new bone on the surface of a bone.
* Exostoses can cause chronic pain ranging from mild to debilitatingly severe, depending on the shape, size, and location of the lesion. It is most commonly found in places like the ribs, where small bone growths form, but sometimes larger growths can grow on places like the ankles, knees, shoulders, elbows and hips. Very rarely are they on the skull.
* Exostoses are sometimes shaped like spurs, such as calcaneal spurs.
* [[Osteomyelitis]] may leave the adjacent bone with exostosis formation.
* Charcot foot, the neuropathic breakdown of the feet seen primarily in diabetics, can also leave bone spurs.
* They normally form on the bones of joints, and can grow upwards. For example, if an extra bone formed on the ankle, it might grow up to the shin.
* Cartilaginous exostosis = Osteocartilaginous exostosis = Osteochondroma


Osteomyelitis, a bone infection, may leave the adjacent bone with exostosis formation. Charcot foot, the neuropathic breakdown of the feet seen primarily in diabetics, can also leave bone spurs that may then become symptomatic.
* Osteophytes are bone spurs that develop on the margins of joints secondary to external stimuli such as osteoarthritis.  


They normally form on the bones of joints, and can grow upwards. For example, if an extra bone formed on the ankle, it might grow up to the shin.
When used in the phrases "cartilaginous exostosis" or "osteocartilaginous exostosis", the term is considered synonymous with osteochondroma. Some sources consider the two terms to mean the same thing even without qualifiers, but this interpretation is not universal.
=== Osteophytes ===
Osteophytes are bone spurs that develop on the margins of joints secondary to external stimuli such as osteoarthritis. However, these are not always distinguished from exostoses in any definite way.




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* Buccal exostosis
* Buccal exostosis
* Footballer's ankle (exotosis of the ankle bone)
* Footballer's ankle (Ankle bone)
* Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME)
* Hereditary multiple exostoses  
* Subungual exostosis
* Subungual exostosis
* Surfer's ear (exostosis of the ear canal)
* Surfer's ear  
* Torus mandibularis
* Torus mandibularis
* Torus palatinus
* Torus palatinus
* Calcaneal spur (heel spur)
* Calcaneal spur
 


=== Remedies ===
=== Remedies ===
[[Ruta, Ruta graveolens|Ruta]]
 
* [[Ruta, Ruta graveolens|Ruta]]
* [[Calc-f, Calcarea fluorica|Calc-f]]

Revision as of 10:35, 14 July 2023

Clinic

  • Also known as a bone spur, is the formation of new bone on the surface of a bone.
  • Exostoses can cause chronic pain ranging from mild to debilitatingly severe, depending on the shape, size, and location of the lesion. It is most commonly found in places like the ribs, where small bone growths form, but sometimes larger growths can grow on places like the ankles, knees, shoulders, elbows and hips. Very rarely are they on the skull.
  • Exostoses are sometimes shaped like spurs, such as calcaneal spurs.
  • Osteomyelitis may leave the adjacent bone with exostosis formation.
  • Charcot foot, the neuropathic breakdown of the feet seen primarily in diabetics, can also leave bone spurs.
  • They normally form on the bones of joints, and can grow upwards. For example, if an extra bone formed on the ankle, it might grow up to the shin.
  • Cartilaginous exostosis = Osteocartilaginous exostosis = Osteochondroma
  • Osteophytes are bone spurs that develop on the margins of joints secondary to external stimuli such as osteoarthritis.


Types

  • Buccal exostosis
  • Footballer's ankle (Ankle bone)
  • Hereditary multiple exostoses
  • Subungual exostosis
  • Surfer's ear
  • Torus mandibularis
  • Torus palatinus
  • Calcaneal spur


Remedies

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