Inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia is a chronic (continuing, ongoing) bone disease that is evidenced by a part of your bone developing abnormally. Scar-like (fibrous) tissue starts to replace and take the position of normal bone tissue. With the growth of your bone, the softer fibrous tissue keeps expanding, which leads to your bone becoming weakened by this process.

Deformity may occur in your bone that is infected by inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia. If deformity does develop, it will then increase the possibility of a fracture (break) occurring in your bone that has been affected. Do you have a severe case of inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia. If this is the case, you may be eligible to receive some form of social security disability benefits like SSI or SSDI. A smart move on your part would be to get in touch with one of the social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com to check this out. The social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com stand ready to assist you in obtaining all of the disability benefits that are rightfully yours.

Inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia is believed to begin before you are born. However, you may not realize that you are affected by inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia until you reach childhood, adolescence or adulthood.

About 7% of all benign bone tumors are due to this type of  hyperplasia. Your upper arm bone, skull, thighbone, shinbone and pelvis are the areas of your body where the disease occurs most often, but inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia may take place in any bone in your body.

In most cases, inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia involves only one of your bones. In these instances, it is known as monostotic inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia. When the disease affects two or more of your bones, it is called polystotic inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia. This form of the disease may affect two of your bones in the same limb or  several bones throughout your skeleton.

Men and women are affected equally by this. It also seems to affect all races equally.

Inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia is caused by a faulty (mutated) gene that has to do with your cells that produce bone. However, what causes this gene to become faulty is unknown.

What science does know is that inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia is neither inherited or passed down from parent to child. There are also no known environmental or dietary factors that lead to inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia.

Inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia is a disease that has no known cause. It develops spontaneously. This means that it does not result from another condition nor is it related to another disorder.

You might not have any signs and symptoms at all if your inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia is mild. If the disease is severe, however, you may experience several signs and symptoms. Some of these are:

• Bone deformities
• Problems with being able to walk
• Bone sores (lesions)
• Bone pain that grows worse with any type of activity but gets better when you rest
• Pigmentation (an unusual skin color)
• Bone fractures (breaks)
• Problems with your endocrine gland