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Osteopoikilosis was first described by Albers-Schönberg in 1915. It is a benign, usually asymptomatic condition diagnosed radiographically by the presence of multiple symmetrical circular/ovoid sclerotic opacities of the ischia, pubic bones, and the epimetaphyseal regions of the short tubular bones. The incidence is estimated as 1/50,000 (Cazzola et al. 1989).

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Chen, H. (2017). Osteopoikilosis. In: Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2401-1_187

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