INFANTILE CORTICAL HYPEROSTOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH THROMBOCYTHÆMIA
✍ Scribed by Pickering, Douglas; Cuddigan, Brian
- Book ID
- 123189244
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 1969
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 301 KB
- Volume
- 294
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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A case report of an infant with the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and clinical and radiological features of infantile cortical hyperostosis (Caffey disease) is presented. This is the third case described of the association of these two rare disorders and gives further support to the role of an immunologi
Infantile cortical hyperostosis occurred in three generations of a family affecting eight different members. As confirmed in this family, Caffey disease is an autosomal dominant disorder of unknown etiology, with incomplete penetrance and variable expression.