Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Pseudoarthrosis
HP:0005864
What it means
A pathologic entity characterized by a developmental defect in a long bone leading to bending and pathologic fracture, with inability to form a normal bony callus with subsequent fibrous nonunion, leading to the pseudarthrosis (or "false joint").
Part of the broader category
Also called: Pseudoarthroses
Pseudoarthrosis
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