title: Elbow heterotopic ossification in head-trauma patients: diagnosis and treatment.
abstract: Heterotopic ossification is a disorder characterized histologically and radiographically by normal bone formation in soft tissues that normally have no ossification properties. In severe head-trauma patients, a high incidence of heterotopic ossification occurs. The diagnosis of this pathology in these patients often is difficult for residual neurological damage. The etiology of heterotopic ossification following head trauma is unknown. Similarities have been found between heterotopic ossification and myositis ossificans, a hereditary autosomal dominant disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics, University of Ancona, Italy.
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Palma
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rapali
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Paladini
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ventura
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D004551:Elbow Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular / Q000502:physiology; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices