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Periosteal new bone formation in a child

A periosteal reaction is the formation of new bone in response to injury or other stimuli of the periosteum surrounding the bone. It is most often identified on X-ray films of the bones. [Source: Wikipedia ]

May Be Caused by
 Common
Arthritis
Battered child syndrome
Bone sarcoma
Burkitt lymphoma
Campomelic dysplasia
Congenital transplacental infection
Dactylitis
Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma metastasis
Ewing sarcoma
Fungal arthritis
Healing rickets
Juvenile chronic arthritis
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Leukemia
Metastasis
Neuroblastoma metastasis
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Osteomyelitis
Osteosarcoma
Physiologic periostitis of the newborn
Prematurity
Retinoblastoma metastasis
Septic arthritis
Sickle cell disease
Stress fracture
Trauma
Traumatic callus formation
Traumatic periostitis
 Uncommon
Benign bone cyst or neoplasm with expansion or pathologic fracture
Caffey disease
Cellulitis
Christmas disease
Decubitus ulcer
Deep abscess
Diabetic ulcer
Diaphyseal dysplasia
Gaucher disease
GM1 gangliosidosis
Hemophilia
Hyperphosphatasia
Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
Hypervitaminosis A
Hypervitaminosis D
Idiopathic
Infantile multisystem inflammatory disease
Melorheostosis
Menkes disease
Methotrexate
Mucolipidosis type 2
Niemann-Pick disease
Nutritional copper deficiency
Osteoid osteoma
Pachydermoperiostosis
Prostaglandin E
Radiation injury
Scurvy
Thermal injury
Tuberous sclerosis
Vascular tumor
Yaws

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