%0 Journal Article %T Miositis osificante postraum¨¢tica %A Pereda Cardoso %A Osvaldo %A Echevarria Castillo %A Rafael %A Blanco Placencia %A Hector %A Gonz¨¢lez Reinaldo %A Omar %A Padr¨®n Vald¨¦s %A Froil¨¢n %J Revista Cubana de Ortopedia y Traumatolog£¿-a %D 2007 %I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X postraumatic circumscriptus myositis ossificans is a proliferative benign process in which metaplastic formation occurs in non-osseous tissue. a case diagnosed with myositis ossificans in the hip as a complication of a muscular tear was presented. an updated literature review on this topic and the corresponding diagnosing methods was made. %K myositis ossificans %K heterotopic ossification %K osseous metaplasia. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-215X2007000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en