infantile cortical hyperostosis
- infantile cortical hyperostosis
- 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; called also Caffey disease.
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Infantile cortical hyperostosis — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 29307 ICD10 = ICD10|M|89|8|m|86 ICD9 = ICD9|756.59 ICDO = OMIM = 114000 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = orthoped eMedicineTopic = 151 MeshID = D006958 Infantile cortical hyperostosis is a self… … Wikipedia
Hyperostosis — Overgrowth of bone. Hyperostosis is a nonspecific term that does not refer to any particular condition. * * * 1. Hypertrophy of bone. 2. SYN: exostosis. [hyper + G. osteon, bone, + osis, condition] ankylosing h. SYN: diffuse idiopathic skeletal h … Medical dictionary
Hyperostosis — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 30719 ICD10 = ICD10|M|85|8|m|80 ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D015576Hyperostosis is an excessive growth of bone. It may lead to exostosis. It… … Wikipedia
hyperostosis — n. excessive enlargement of the outer layer of a bone. The condition is harmless and is usually recognized as an incidental finding on X ray. It commonly affects the frontal bone of the skull (hyperostosis frontalis). Infantile cortical… … The new mediacal dictionary
hiperostosis cortical infantil — Eng. Cortical infantile hyperostosis Ver síndrome de Caffey … Diccionario de oftalmología
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