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Numerous non-pathological appearances can simulate disease processes in the developing skeleton. These may be anatomical variants, related to irregular, decreased or increased mineralisation during ossification, or artefactual. Only those that simulate the effects of trauma will be covered in this chapter, which is not intended to be exhaustive. Skeletal variations that are more commonly encountered in paediatric practice are included but the reader is directed to more comprehensive texts such as Theodore Keats Atlas (Keats and Anderson 2001), which this chapter is not designed to replace as a reference text
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Williams, H. (2008). Normal Anatomical Variants and Other Mimics of Skeletal Trauma. In: Johnson, K.J., Bache, E. (eds) Imaging in Pediatric Skeletal Trauma. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68261-5_7
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