Hyperostosis is an excessive growth of bone. It may lead to exostosis. It occurs in many musculoskeletal disorders and from use of drugs like Isotretinoin.

Disorders featuring hyperostosis include:

• Camurati-Engelmann disease, type 2

• Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, primary, autosomal recessive, 2

• Melorheostosis

• Tumoral calcinosis, hyperphosphatemic, familial, 1

• Worth disease

See also

• Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis

• Hyperostosis frontalis interna

• Infantile cortical hyperostosis

• Porotic hyperostosis

• SAPHO syndrome

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