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• This bizarre shift of tissue systems, known as heterotopic ossification in most cases, can be brought on with spinal cord injury, amputation and even hip surgery.
• The development of pancreatic tissue outside the confines of the main gland, without anatomic or vascular connections between them, is a congenital abnormality referred to as...
• It's called heterotopic ossification.
• Successful heterotopic segmental liver transplantation from a live donor to a patient with Alagille syndrome.