Caffey's syndrome

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• Caffey syndrome — Caffey Silverman syndrome infantile cortical hyperostosis …   Medical dictionary

• syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

• Caffey — John Patrick, U.S. physician, radiologist, and pediatrician, the “the father of pediatric radiology”, 1895–1978. See C. disease, C. syndrome, C. Kempe syndrome, C. Silverman syndrome …   Medical dictionary

• síndrome de Caffey — Eng. Caffey s syndrome Síndrome de etiología desconocida que se manifiesta en los primeros meses de vida como una tumefacción de partes blandas e hiperostosis cortical extensa. A nivel oftalmológico las principales manifestaciones son edema… …   Diccionario de oftalmología

• síndrome de Caffey-Silverman — Eng. Caffey Silverman syndrome Ver síndrome de Caffey …   Diccionario de oftalmología

• Caffey syndrome — ▪ pathology also called  infantile cortical hyperostosis        a hereditary disease of infants, characterized by swellings of the periosteum (the bone layer where new bone is produced) and the bone cortex of the upper arms, shoulder girdle, and… …   Universalium

• Shaken baby syndrome — Classification and external resources ICD 9 995.55 MedlinePlus 000004 …   Wikipedia

• Charlotte Caffey — (2008) Background information Birth name Charlotte Irene Caffey …   Wikipedia

• Kenny-Caffey syndrome — Ken·ny Caf·fey syndrome (kenґe kafґe) [Frederic Marshal Kenny, American pediatrician, born 1929; John Patrick Caffey, American pediatrician, 1895–1978] see under syndrome …   Medical dictionary

• Kenny-Caffey syndrome — a hereditary syndrome characterized by hypoparathyroidism with intermittent hypocalcemia, short stature, and medullary stenosis of tubular bones. It is usually autosomal dominant, but autosomal recessive cases have also been observed …   Medical dictionary

• List of eponymous diseases — An eponymous disease is one that has been named after the person who first described the condition. This usually involves publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Rarely an eponymous disease may be named after a patient (examples… …   Wikipedia