"Osteopoikilosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An asymptomatic, autosomal dominant trait in which pea-sized sclerotic spots, prominent in the metaphyseal area, are accompanied by unique cutaneous lesions. These are yellowish papules or plaques with increased elastin content. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, pp1434-35)
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D010023
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.116.099.708.702.685 C17.300.705
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Osteopoikilosis" by people in Profiles.
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Refinement of the 12q14 microdeletion syndrome: primordial dwarfism and developmental delay with or without osteopoikilosis. Eur J Hum Genet. 2009 Sep; 17(9):1141-7.
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Case report of a patient with osteopoikilosis. Rheumatol Int. 2007 May; 27(7):683-6.
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Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome associated with elevated elastin production by affected skin fibroblasts in culture. J Invest Dermatol. 1992 Aug; 99(2):129-37.
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Mixed-sclerosing-bone-dystrophy: 42-year follow-up of a case reported as osteopetrosis. Calcif Tissue Int. 1986 Mar; 38(3):175-85.
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Biochemical and ultrastructural demonstration of elastin accumulation in the skin lesions of the Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome. J Invest Dermatol. 1981 Apr; 76(4):284-7.
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Mixed-sclerosing-bone-dystrophy: report of a case and review of the literature. Skeletal Radiol. 1981; 6(2):95-102.
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99mTc-pyrophosphate bone imaging in osteopoikilosis, osteopathia striata, and melorheostosis. Radiology. 1978 May; 127(2):439-43.