Osteitis

Osteitis
Specialty	Rheumatology

Osteitis is inflammation of bone. More specifically, it can refer to one of the following conditions:

• Osteomyelitis, or infectious osteitis, mainly bacterial osteitis
• Alveolar osteitis or "dry socket"
• Condensing osteitis (or Osteitis condensans)
• Osteitis deformans (or Paget's disease of bone)
• Osteitis fibrosa cystica (or Osteitis fibrosa, or Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone)
• Osteitis pubis
• Radiation osteitis
  • Osteitis condensans ilii
• Panosteitis, a long bone condition in large breed dogs
• In horses, pedal osteitis is frequently confused with laminitis.

See also

• Osteochondritis
• SAPHO syndrome