Cartilage calcification and rib erosion in chronic respiratory poliomyelitis

Lymphangiomatosis of Bone

“…One form presents with thinning and disappearance of bone (11) and must be differentiated from other types of vanishing bone disease such as the disappearing ribs in recumbent patients (12,13) and the disappearing bones of progeria (14), hemangiomatosis, or nephropathy (15). The thin bones of neurofibromatosis or congenital pseudarthrosis must also be differentiated.…”