Premature closure of a growth plate (differential)
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Premature closure of a growth plate subsequently results in a shortened bone, which can occur in a number of situations.
Pathology
Aetiology
Common aetiologies
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local hyperaemia
- infection: osteomyelitis
- juvenile chronic arthritis
- juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- haemophilia
- arteriovenous malformation
- trauma
Less common aetiologies
Uncommon
- bone infarction due to vascular occlusion, e.g. sickle cell disease
- radiation injury
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thermal injury
- burn
- frostbite
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disuse
- immobilization
- postfracture
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congenital
- enchondromatosis
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hereditary multiple exostoses
- multiple cartilaginous exostoses
- osteochondromatosis
- metabolic conditions
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other
- infantile multisystem inflammatory disease
- neoplasm invading growth plate
-<p><strong>Premature closure of a growth plate</strong> subsequently results in a shortened bone, which can occur in a number of situations. </p><h4>Pathology</h4><h5>Common aetiologies</h5><ul>- +<p><strong>Premature closure of a growth plate</strong> subsequently results in a shortened bone, which can occur in a number of situations. </p><h4>Pathology</h4><h5>Aetiology</h5><h6>Common</h6><ul>
-<li><a href="/articles/arteriovenous-malformations">arteriovenous malformation</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/arteriovenous-malformation-2">arteriovenous malformation</a></li>
-</ul><h5>Less common aetiologies</h5><ul>- +</ul><h6>Uncommon</h6><ul>
-<li>frostbite</li>- +<li><a title="Frostbite" href="/articles/frostbite">frostbite</a></li>
-<li>osteochondromatosis</li>- +<li><a title="Synovial osteochondromatosis" href="/articles/synovial-chondromatosis">osteochondromatosis</a></li>
-<li>pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism</li>- +<li><a title="Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism" href="/articles/pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism">pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism</a></li>
References changed:
- 1. Stephen Chapman, Richard Nakielny. Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis. (2003) ISBN: 9780702026508 - <a href="http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9780702026508">Google Books</a>
- 2. George B. Greenfield. Radiology of Bone Diseases. (1986) <span class="ref_v4"></span>
- 3. Frederic Noah Silverman, John Caffey. Caffey's Pediatric X-Ray Diagnosis. (1993) ISBN: 9780815114628 - <a href="http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9780815114628">Google Books</a>
- 1. Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis Edited by Stephen Chapman and Richard Nakielny, 4th edition, 2003
- 2. Greenfield GB: Radiology of Bone Diseases. (ed 5) Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1990
- 3. Silverman FN (ed): Caffey’s Pediatric X-ray Diagnosis. (ed 9) Chicago: Year Book Medical Publ, 1995, pp 1759, 1761
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