HEREDITARY DEFORMING CHONDRODYSPLASIA
- 1 July 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 21 (1) , 12-31
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1930.01150130015002
Abstract
Considerable interest has recently been aroused concerning a disease entity of the skeleton which has been referred to most commonly as multiple cartilaginous exostoses. Certainly the manifestation of interest in the disease in America can be said to be recent, for the first case reported in this country was by Gibney1 in 1875. Not unlike most disease entities of the skeleton, this disease has been given a name by almost every author who has written about it. Like practically all of the hereditary disease entities of the skeleton, its etiology remains a mystery. It is not within my province in this paper to discuss in detail the disease itself, for this has been adequately done in a number of relatively recent papers, particularly in that of Albert Ehrenfried.2 The studies here are devoted to three aspects of the disease: (1) a brief study of the disease as representedKeywords
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- Klinische, pathologisch-anatomische und radiologische Studien über Exostosis cartilaginea multiplexDeutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, 1907