Abstract
A disseminated disorder of epimysial connective tissue characterized by hyperplasia and ossification causing atrophy and displacement of skeletal muscles, entrapment of vessels and nerves, and progressive immobility is described in three domestic cats. The condition has some features in common with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva in man.
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