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Show IMfo fta rjusclo Disonlop A painful condition characterized by bone deposits developing in muscle tissue has long been observed in patients suffering from a wide range of maladies. . THE DISEASE, known as myositis ossificans, can occur from birth on, as the result of a severe trauma or due to other neuromuscular and chronic illnesses. Now, two University of Utah bone specialists have identified iden-tified a new category of pa tients who appear healthy but suffer from the disease. DRS. SHERMAN S. Coleman and Kent M. Samuelson of the division of orthopedic surgery reported their findings in a March issue is-sue of the Journal of the American Medical Association Associa-tion (JAMA). They said the newly identified iden-tified disease form has been found in healthy patients whose "lesions are neither the result of trauma nor are they progressive (from birth)." It appears "there is something unusual" in these patients' disease processes that makes them more susceptible sus-ceptible to development of bony lesions in muscle tissue. THE U physicians based their observations on four patients pa-tients who had no medical complaints other than pain and swelling in various portions por-tions of their bodies. Tests were conducted that showed bony masses in the tissues. Subsequent biopsies of the affected areas resulted in microscopic tissue sections that indicated myositis ossificans os-sificans was present. THE SYMPTOMS in all four cases spontaneously subsided, sub-sided, and none of the patients pa-tients yielded evidence of further masses in the soft muscle tissues several months later, the physicians reported in the JAMA article. |