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Preferred Name

Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis
Synonyms

Caffey Disease

Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis

Definitions

A self-limited inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology found in infants that causes swelling of the soft tissue, changes to bone, and irritability.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C118423

ALT_DEFINITION

An autosomal dominant condition caused by mutation(s) in the COL1A1 gene encoding the collagen alpha-1(I) chain. This disease is an acute inflammatory condition of infancy that causes soft tissue swelling (mostly of chin/cheeks), bone thickening/widening (particularly of the mandible/clavicles/long bones), pain, and irritability. This disease generally resolves by the 3rd year of life, although some bony deformity may persist.

code

C118423

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C90259

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C118467

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C189762

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C118464

Contributing_Source

MedDRA

NICHD

DEFINITION

A self-limited inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology found in infants that causes swelling of the soft tissue, changes to bone, and irritability.

FULL_SYN

Caffey Disease

Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis

label

Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis

Maps_To

Infantile cortical hyperostosis

NCI_META_CUI

CL479882

Preferred_Name

Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C118423

Semantic_Type

Disease or Syndrome

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C34712

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