Sclerosing bone dysplasias: Neurologic assessment and management

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 393-397

  Hofmeyr, Louis M ^a,c   Hamersma, Herman ^b  

^a 1 Military Hospital   (South Africa)

^b Flora Clinic   (South Africa)

^c NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Camurati Engelmann disease; Craniometaphyseal dysplasia; Diaphyseal dysplasia; Facial paralysis; Hearing loss; Hyperostosis corticalis generalisata; Osteopetrosis; Sclerosing bone dysplasias; Sclerosteosis; Van Buchem disease

Indexed keywords

BONE DENSITY; BONE DYSPLASIA; BONE METABOLISM; BONE REMODELING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GENE; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SOST GENE; VAN BUCHEM DISEASE;

EID: 4644349491     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.moo.0000134441.84110.9e     Document Type: Review

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