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Thick clavicle

The clavicle, or collarbone, is a slender, S-shaped bone approximately 6 inches (15 cm) long bone that serves as a strut between the shoulder blade and the sternum (breastbone). There are two clavicles, one on the left and one on the right. [Source: Wikipedia ]

Synonyms

Broad clavicle

Enlarged clavicle

May Be Caused by

Common: Cartilaginous tumor; Chronic productive osteomyelitis; Ewing sarcoma; Healed fracture with callus; Metastasis; Myeloma; Osteoma; Osteosarcoma; Paget disease of bone
Uncommon: Blomstrand dysplasia; Caffey disease; Camurati-Engelmann disease; Clavicular overgrowth and cystic hygroma; Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia; Craniometadiaphyseal dysplasia Wormian bone type; Diaphyseal dysplasia; Diastrophic dysplasia; Distal osteosclerosis; Dysosteosclerosis; Endosteal hyperostosis van Buchem type; Endosteal hyperostosis Worth type; Fibrous dysplasia; Fucosidosis; Genochondromatosis; GM1 gangliosidosis; Holt-Oram syndrome; Hurler syndrome; Hyperphosphatasia; Langerhans cell histiocytosis; Lenz-Majewski dysplasia; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Mannosidosis; Melnick-Needles osteodysplasty; Menkes disease; Mucolipidosis; Mucopolysaccharidosis; Nutritional copper deficiency; Oculo-dento-osseous dysplasia; Osteomyelitis; Pyle dysplasia; Sclerosteosis; Sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis; Winchester syndrome