Bone disease

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Bone disease
Specialty	Rheumatology

Bone disease refers to the medical conditions which affect the bone.^[1]

Terminology

A bone disease is also called an "osteopathy", but because the term osteopathy is often used to refer to an alternative health-care philosophy, use of the term can cause some confusion.^[2]

Bone and cartilage disorders

Osteochondrodysplasia is a general term for a disorder of the development of bone and cartilage.^[3]

List

A

• Ambe
• Osteonecrosis^[4]
• Arthritis^[5]

B

• Bone spur
  (Osteophytes)

C

• Craniosynostosis
• Coffin–Lowry syndrome
• Copenhagen disease

F

• Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva^[6]
• Fibrous dysplasia
• Fong disease (or Nail–patella syndrome)^[7]
• Fracture^[8]

G

• Giant cell tumor of bone^[9]
• Greenstick fracture^[10]
• Gout^[11]

H

• Hypophosphatasia^[12]
• Hereditary multiple exostoses

K

• Klippel–Feil syndrome^[13]

M

• Metabolic bone disease
• Multiple myeloma^[14]

N

• Nail–patella syndrome^[15]

O

• Osteitis
• Osteitis deformans (or Paget's disease of bone)^[16]
• Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone
  )
• Osteitis pubis
• Osteitis condensas
  )
• Osteochondritis dissecans^[17]
• Osteochondroma (bone tumor)
• Osteogenesis imperfecta^[18]
• Osteomalacia^[19]
• Osteomyelitis^[20]
• Osteopenia^[21]
• Osteopetrosis
• Osteoporosis^[22]

P

• Porotic hyperostosis^[23]
• Primary hyperparathyroidism^[24]

R

• Renal osteodystrophy^[25]

S

• Salter–Harris fracture^[26]
• Scoliosis^[27]

W

• Water on the knee

See also

• Osteoimmunology

References