| 1. | Heterotopic means the displacement of an organ from its normal anatomic location.
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| 2. | It has not been shown to induce heterotopic bone formation.
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| 3. | Experimentally grafting PMCs into heterotopic tissue does not prevent the cells from ingressing.
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| 4. | Palovarotene is a drug shown to prevent heterotopic bone formation in animal models of FOP.
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| 5. | This is called a heterotopic pregnancy.
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| 6. | This effect may be useful and etidronate is in fact used this way to fight heterotopic ossification.
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| 7. | The three-phase bone scan may be the most sensitive method of detecting early heterotopic bone formation.
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| 8. | It is not clear exactly what this means, because these patients do not develop heterotopic bone formation.
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| 9. | Other problems may include pulmonary and gastrointestinal problems, heterotopic ossification, osteoporosis, and other pathologic fractures.
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| 10. | Another side effect can be heterotopic ossification, especially when a bone injury is combined with a head injury.
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