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SUBMITTER: Cerruti-Mainardi P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3197908 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cerruti-Mainardi Paola P Venturi Giacomo G Spunton Marianna M Favaron Elena E Zignani Michela M Provera Sandro S Dallapiccola Bruno B
European journal of pediatrics 20110513 11
Infantile cortical hyperostosis (ICH, OMIM 114000) is a rare familial disorder which affects infants. It spontaneously heals in the first years of life. The disease is characterized by regressive subperiosteal hyperosteogenesis mainly affecting long bones, mandible, clavicles, and ribs which are remarkably swollen and deformed on X-rays. But it is also important to take into consideration the autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance to detect it. In 2005 Gensure et al. detected 3040C → T mutati ...[more]