Exostoses
Common Name(s)
Exostoses
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Following organizations serve the condition "Exostoses" for support, advocacy or research.
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Scientific Literature
Articles from the PubMed Database
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The terms "Exostoses" returned 85 free, full-text research articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal:
In the context of Middle and Late Pleistocene eastern Eurasian human crania, the external auditory exostoses (EAE) of the late archaic Xuchang 1 and 2 and the Xujiayao 15 early Late Pleistocene human temporal bones are described. Xujiayao 15 has small EAE (Grade 1), Xuchang 1 presents ...
Journal:
Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) is a rare autosomal dominant skeletal disorder that can cause a variety of clinical manifestations. We aimed to evaluate the general clinical phenotypic severity of HME by using a scoring system and correlate the genotypes with different clinical ...
Journal: Prague Med Rep. ;118(2-3):87-94.
Hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) represents a heterogeneous group of diseases often associated with progressive skeletal deformities. Most frequently, mutations in EXT1 and EXT2 genes with autosomal dominant inheritance are responsible for HME. In our group of 9 families with HME ...
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Reviews from the PubMed Database
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The terms "Exostoses" returned 4 free, full-text review articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal: Diagn Interv Imaging. 2017 Jan;98(1):21-28.
Exostoses are the most common benign bone tumors, accounting for 10 to 15% of all bone tumors. They develop at the bone surface by enchondral ossification and stop growing when skeletal maturity has been reached. At first, exostoses are covered by a smooth cartilage cap that progressively ...
Journal: Am J Otolaryngol. ;36(2):283-6.
Exostoses are bony outgrowths of the external auditory canal (EAC) that can lead to cerumen entrapment, recurrent infections, and conductive hearing loss. When surgical removal is indicated, a drill or osteotome may be used via a post-auricular, endaural, or transcanal approach. Studies ...
Journal: Dev. Dyn.. 2013 Sep;242(9):1021-32.
Heparan sulfate (HS) is an essential component of cell surface and matrix-associated proteoglycans. Due to their sulfation patterns, the HS chains interact with numerous signaling proteins and regulate their distribution and activity on target cells. Many of these proteins, including ...
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Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
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