In 1929, Morquio described a peculiar skeletal disease, which he called familial osseous dystrophy. The disease develops gradually after the first year of life and is characterized by dwarfism with short neck, deformed chest with protruding sternum, deformed legs with pronounced genu valgum, and broad flat feet. The skull and face are normal and the intelligence is normal. The disease is often ...

INTRODUCTION It is common for leiomyoma to undergo various secondary changes like hyaline degeneration, cystic change, myxoid degeneration, infection, necrosis, calcification, red degeneration and very rarely ossification. They are said to result from inadequate blood supply resulting in replacement of muscle fibres by hyaline material, collagen, calcium, mucopolysaccharides or a combination of...