Rare and Disabling Heterotopic Ossification: A Case Report
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The latter makes the object of this article and occurs in severe medullary and brain traumatisms, less frequently in vascular accidents, encephalitis, tetanus and severe burns. It is a condition that exacerbates the morbidity of HO neurologic traumatism, leading to important range of motion limitations, even more so when it localises near joints. The most frequently affected is the hip joint, then shoulder, elbow and rarely the knee.
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