Abstract
Hereditary multiple exostosis (HME) is also called diaphyseal aclasis, multiple echondromatosis, Ehrenfried disease, hereditary deforming chondrodysplasia, and osteogenic disease. First described by Boyer in 1814, this condition has higher tendency to invade the spine and lead to myelopathy more than solitary osteochondromas, which occur mostly in the appendicular skeleton than the axial one (Mikawa et al. 1997; Palmer and Blum 1980; Schmale et al. 1994).
Abstracted from Chooi et al. (2005)
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Eltorai, I.M. (2016). Cervical Myelopathy Due to Exostosis of the Posterior Arch of the Atlas. In: Rare Diseases and Syndromes of the Spinal Cord. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45147-3_1
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