Ossification is where calcium salts gather in soft tissue. This causes an extraskeletal bone to form. Rejecting the advice of his doctors, the man left the hospital. This meant they were unable to ...

Urology Case Reports published case study on man's penis turning to bone. The rare condition is called penile ossification, and there are less than 40 documented cases of it. The 63-year-old man ...

Nw study findings implicate a specific type of immune cell behind heterotopic ossification, or abnormal bone formation and present a possible target for treatment. Hip replacements, severe burns ...

Heterotopic ossification, or HO, is a condition that largely occurs in patients after spinal cord injuries when the soft tissues of the hip surrounding the joints become ossified with bone spurs.

In fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, activating mutations in activin receptor type-1, a bone morphogenetic protein type I receptor, induce heterotopic endochondral ossification, which results ...

enhances Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP)-dependent bone regeneration while mitigating the risk of heterotopic ossification (HO), offering promising therapeutic opportunities. This breakthrough ...

That's when they noticed something very strange: The man appeared to have "ossification" along the entire shaft of his penis, according to the report. In other words, bone had formed inside the penis.