THE MORGAGNI-STEWART-MOREL SYNDROME
- 1 January 1944
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 73 (1) , 7-12
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1944.00210130015002
Abstract
The symptom complex of hyperostosis frontalis interna, or its variants described by Sherwood Moore,1with associated endocrine and neuropsychiatric manifestations, had stimulated a degree of interest, as evidenced by the increasing literature on the subject, to warrant the report of cases which may throw more light on the etiologic background of this interesting condition. The triad of hyperostosis frontalis interna, obesity and virilism had been described originally by Morgagni2in 1765. Much later (1928) the appearance of a more careful study, by Stewart,3in which he described the autopsy observations and added the clinical feature of a psychosis to the syndrome, and the first description of the syndrome as observed in a living person, by Morel4in 1930, brought the group picture of calvarial hyperostosis and endocrine, metabolic and neuropsychiatric manifestations into clearer relief as an entity. Moore's elaborate work in reexamining roentgenograms of numerous humanThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: