the similarities between the age and sex distributions and the responses to antibiotics of the patients with sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis and those with pustulosis suggest that these disorders have a common etiology , and that the pustulosis may be a so-called bacterid reaction and the hyperostosis , a manifestation of a systemic reaction to a focal infection .
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sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis
C0020492
hyperostosis