Meanings of multiple exostoses in English

A case of osteosarcoma arising from a multiple exostoses lesion is presented.

Objective: To identify the gene causing hereditary multiple exostoses in a Chinese pedigree.

Approximately 10 per cent of the subjects had no family history of multiple exostoses.

The camel was affected with rickets and the aurochs had multiple exostoses or bony tumors.

Hartmann shows two cases of multiple exostoses, both in males, and universally distributed over the body.

We have carried out a linkage analysis on 11 families segregating gene(s) for hereditary multiple exostoses (EXT).

The osteosarcoma, complicated by multiple exostoses, had a very poor prognosis because it was resistant to various anticancer agents.

Objective: To investigate further the genetic basis of hereditary multiple exostoses (EXT) and provide useful information for gene diagnosis of the disease.

An X;8 translocation was identified in a 27-year-old female patient manifesting multiple exostoses and autism accompanied by mental retardation and epilepsy.

Methods: We investigated LEMD3 and EXT1 in the three-generation family from Poland, with 5 patients affected with osteopoikilosis and one child affected with multiple exostoses.