Enfermedad de Caffey: reporte de 2 casos / Caffey Disease: two cases´ report
Mediciego
;
13(supl.2)sept. 2007.
Article
in Spanish
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| ID: lil-532270
RESUMEN
En un período relativamente corto de tiempo se han hospitalizado en nuestro Servicio de Pediatría, dos lactantes pequeños (menores de 6 meses) con igual sintomatología fiebre, irritabilidad y aumento de volumen de región mandibular, que al estudiarles y realizar diagnóstico diferencial se llega a la conclusión de estar afectados por una hiperostosis cortical infantil (Enfermedad de Caffey).
ABSTRACT
In a relatively short period of time, there has been hospitalized in the Pediatric Service, two little breast-fed infants (under 6 months) with same symptomatology fever, irritability and volume´s increase of mandibular region, that when studying and doing the differential diagnosis, resulted of been affected by an infantile cortical hyperostosis (Caffey Disease).
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Main subject:
Hyperostosis, Cortical, Congenital
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Infant
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Mediciego
Journal subject:
Public Health
Year:
2007
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Cuba
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital General Docente Capitán Roberto Rodríguez/CU
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