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Two spinal cord injured patients had extensive heterotopic ossifications around their hips surgically removed. The use of disodium etidronate from 2 weeks presurgery to 2–5 months postsurgery and in particular indomethacin 25 mg twice daily, from 2 weeks prior to surgery to 6 weeks postsurgery may have helped to prevent recurrence of the ossifications in the follow up periods of 4 and 5 years respectively.
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Biering-Sørensen, F., Tøndevold, E. Indomethacin and disodium etidronate for the prevention of recurrence of heterotopic ossification after surgical resection. Two case reports. Spinal Cord 31, 513–515 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1993.83
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