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Abstract
A disease of young infants characterized by soft tissue swellings over the affected bones, fever, and irritability, and marked by periods of remission and exacerbation. (Dorland, 27th ed)
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- Caffey Disease
- Caffey-De Toni-Silvermann Syndrome
- Congenital Hyperostosis, Cortical
- Cortical Hyperostosis, Congenital
- Familial Caffey's Disease
- Familial Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis
- Hyperostosis, Cortical, Congenital
- Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis
- Caffey De Toni Silvermann Syndrome
- Caffey's Disease, Familial
- Congenital Cortical Hyperostoses
- Congenital Cortical Hyperostosis
- Congenital Hyperostoses, Cortical
- Cortical Congenital Hyperostoses
- Cortical Hyperostoses, Congenital
- Cortical Hyperostoses, Infantile
- Cortical Hyperostosis, Infantile
- Disease, Caffey
- Disease, Familial Caffey's
- Familial Caffey Disease
- Familial Caffeys Disease
- Hyperostoses, Congenital Cortical
- Hyperostoses, Cortical Congenital
- Hyperostoses, Infantile Cortical
- Hyperostosis, Congenital Cortical
- Hyperostosis, Cortical Congenital
- Hyperostosis, Infantile Cortical
- Infantile Cortical Hyperostoses
- Syndrome, Caffey-De Toni-Silvermann
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
cortical refers to cortex of bone; do not use /congen & do not coord with INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES
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History Note
91; was HYPEROSTOSIS, CORTICAL CONGENITAL 1964-90
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Cortical Congenital Hyperostosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006958. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006958
- Cortical Congenital Hyperostosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantile_cortical_hyperostosis
- Cortical Congenital Hyperostosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3801522