Bifurcation of long tubular bones

✍ Scribed by G. Lénárt

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 303 KB
• Volume: 97
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-3916
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00389722

✦ Synopsis

Five cases of bifurcation of long tubular bones, 2 on the lower and 3 the upper extremity, are described In all cases they were accompanied by severe adjacent skeletal defects If the proximal part of the bone was bifurcated the skeletal defect was observed proximally from this anomaly, if the distal bone end was forked than bones were missing distally from the bifurcation In some early observations and a unique case with double epiphysis the shape of the anomalous branches of the bifurcation supported the theory of ectopic bone formation.