INCREASED BONE DENSITY ON X-RAY

sclerotic metastases:

prostatic

breast

lymphoma

other:

Paget's disease

osteopetrosis (marble bone disease)

bone tumours (sclerotic)

post-irradiation

vitamin A intoxication

fluorosis [calcification of ligaments common]

osteosclerosis ['rugger-jersey spine' of renal osteodystrophy]

myelofibrosis

systemic mastocytosis

sickle-cell disease

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