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| Osteitis | |
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| Specialty | Rheumatology  |
Osteitis is inflammation of bone. More specifically, it can refer to one of the following conditions:
- Osteomyelitis, or infectious osteitis, mainly bacterial osteitis[1]
- Alveolar osteitis or "dry socket"[2]
- Condensing osteitis (or Osteitis condensans)
- Osteitis deformans (or Paget's disease of bone)[3]
- Osteitis fibrosa cystica (or Osteitis fibrosa, or Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone)
- Osteitis pubis
- Radiation osteitis
- Osteitis condensans ilii
- Panosteitis, a long bone condition in large breed dogs[4]
- In horses, pedal osteitis is frequently confused with laminitis.