Miscellaneous bone disorders

Question 1

What is Myositis ossificans?

Answer 1

characterized by development of bony tissue in:

• Skeletal muscle or soft tissue
• Following a blunt trauma.

Question 2

what are the Favored Locations for myositis ossificans?

how does it form?

Answer 2

Quadriceps or brachialis muscle

Soft tissue trauma –>  hematoma formation –>  bone formation.

Question 3

what is a differential (what else can present like this?) for myositis ossificans?

Answer 3

osteosarcoma