In 13 joints of 12 patients who sustained traumatic brain injury, heterotopic ossifications of the hip were surgically excised at an average of 15 months after the patients' recovery from coma.

Histologically, the lesion was composed of well differentiated meningeal, glial and cerebral tissues, establishing it to be heterotopic brain tissue. Even when all preoperative procedures exclude ...

Scientists have identified how Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 (DDR2) enhances Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP)-dependent bone regeneration while mitigating the risk of heterotopic ossification (HO ...

This is called periventricular heterotopia (PVH) - small 'lesions' in the brain found next to the ventricle (cerebrospinal fluid-filled cavities in the brain), where the wiring between the neurons ...