Excess skull growth. Coloured magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of an axial section through the head of a 45-year-old patient with hyperostosis of

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Excess skull growth. Coloured magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of an axial section through the head of a 45-year-old patient with hyperostosis of the skull. Hyperostosis is the excessive growth (white, top) of bone. Here, it has affected the front of the skull.

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