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What is a bone island?

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Dr. Scott Keith answered

Specializes in Podiatry

Not tropical island.: A bone island is an incidental finding of an x-ray demonstrating one type of bone, typically cortical, growing inside another type of bone, typically cancellous. A bone island is also called an enostosis.

Answered 5/18/2018

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