Heterotopic ossification often develops in patients with traumatic brain or spinal cord injuries, other severe neurologic disorders or severe burns, most commonly around the hips.
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In 2011, Ablitech received a $ 2 million grant from the Department of Defense ( DoD ) to develop a siRNA based therapy for heterotopic ossification.
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An ovarian pregnancy can develop together with a normal intrauterine pregnancy; such a heterotopic pregnancy will call for expert management as not to endanger the intrauterine pregnancy.
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A cervical pregnancy can develop together with a normal intrauterine pregnancy; such a heterotopic pregnancy will call for expert management as to not to endanger the intrauterine pregnancy.
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On magnetic resonance imaging, tuberous sclerosis patients can exhibit other signs consistent with abnormal neuron migration such as radial white matter tracts hyperintense on T2WI and heterotopic gray matter.
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A "'heterotopic pregnancy "'is a rare complication of pregnancy in which both extra-uterine ( ectopic pregnancy ) and intrauterine pregnancy occur simultaneously.
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There are also rare genetic disorders causing heterotopic ossification such as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva ( FOP ), a condition that causes injured bodily tissues to be replaced by heterotopic bone.
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There are also rare genetic disorders causing heterotopic ossification such as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva ( FOP ), a condition that causes injured bodily tissues to be replaced by heterotopic bone.
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Heterotopic pregnancy is an exceedingly rare type of dizygotic twinning in which one twin implants in the uterus as normal and the other remains in the fallopian tube as an ectopic pregnancy.
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It may be necessary to do both a bone scan and a venogram to differentiate between heterotopic ossification and thrombophlebitis, and it is even possible that both could be present simultaneously.
