premature closure of a growth plate
Premature closure of a growth plate subsequently results in a shortened bone, which can occur in a number of situations.
Pathology
Common etiologies
- local hyperemia
- infection: osteomyelitis
- juvenile chronic arthritis
- juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- hemophilia
- arteriovenous malformation
- trauma
Less common etiologies
- bone infarction due to vascular occlusion, e.g. sickle cell disease
- radiation injury
- thermal injury
- burn
- frostbite
- disuse
- immobilization
- postfracture
- congenital
- enchondromatosis
- hereditary multiple exostoses
- multiple cartilaginous exostoses
- osteochondromatosis
- metabolic conditions
- rickets
- scurvy
- hypervitaminosis A
- pseudohypoparathyroidism
- pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
- other
- infantile multisystem inflammatory disease
- neoplasm invading growth plate
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Assoziationen und Differentialdiagnosen zu premature closure of a growth plate:
