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Stress fracture in a ceratopsian phalanx

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

Bruce M. Rothschild
Bruce M. Rothschild*
Affiliation:
Department of Rheumatology, St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, Youngstown, Ohio 44501
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Abstract

A prominent anterior bulge on a ceratopsian dinosaur phalanx was examined for evidence of infection or stress (fatigue) fracture. The presence of a knife-slice type radiolucency, associated with periosteal reaction, was pathognomonic (diagnostic) for a stress fracture. Stress fractures have previously been recognized only in humans, racing greyhounds, and horses.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , March 1988 , pp. 302 - 303
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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