Repeat radiographs showed heterotopic ossification anterolateral to the lateral epicondyle, and the patient was referred to our office 6 months after the surgery (Fig 1). A three-phase bone scan ...

Any inflammatory damage to soft tissue, whether by injury, biopsy, muscle fatigue or intramuscular injection, will cause or accelerate FOP’s characteristic heterotopic ossification — that is ...

Additional bone growth, or heterotopic ossification, is visible around the upper arms and back on a skeleton of a patient with FOP Credit: PR JEAN-DENIS LAREDO, ISM / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Early ...