Disease or Syndrome
myositis ossifican
Subclass of:
Myositis
Definitions related to myositis ossificans:
  • A disease characterized by bony deposits or the ossification of muscle tissue.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • A self-limited benign neoplasm characterized by a zonal architecture. It is composed of spindle cells oriented randomly or in short intersecting fascicles. Peripherally, the spindle cells merge with osteoblasts that rim and populate ill-defined trabeculae and sheets of unmineralized woven bone, which is surrounded by well-formed trabecular and cortical-type bone that remodels into lamellar bone. Treatment is usually simple excision. Prognosis is excellent; recurrence is uncommon. (WHO 2020)
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Myositis ossificans, disorder of unknown cause in which connective tissue and muscle are replaced by bone. In the more common local type (myositis ossificans circumscripta), only one area is affected; ossification is usually observed to follow injury to the part. In the rare progressive type...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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