Hyperostosis

Hyperostosis
A human skull showing hyperostosis
Specialty	Rheumatology

Hyperostosis is an excessive growth of bone. It may lead to exostosis. It occurs in many musculoskeletal disorders.

Disorders featuring hyperostosis include:^[1]

• Camurati-Engelmann disease, type 2
• Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, primary, autosomal recessive, 2
• Melorheostosis
• Tumoral calcinosis, hyperphosphatemic, familial, 1
• Worth disease