1. Congenital cardiac disease as a core feature of cranio-osteoarthropathy
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Susan O'Connell, Mohnish Suri, Jeremiah Kelleher, Desmond Duff, William Reardon, and Christine Hall
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Male ,musculoskeletal diseases ,Heart Diseases ,Disease ,Bone and Bones ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Fingers ,Spinal osteoarthropathy ,Humans ,Medicine ,Knee ,Genetics (clinical) ,Leg ,Core (anatomy) ,Periosteal new bone formation ,Joint swelling ,business.industry ,Skull ,Syndrome ,General Medicine ,Anatomy ,medicine.disease ,Radiography ,body regions ,Feature (computer vision) ,Child, Preschool ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Cranial sutures ,Female ,Ankle ,business - Abstract
Cranio-osteoarthropathy is a rare condition. Classically, signs are identifiable in infancy with clubbing of fingers, and delayed closure of the clinically enlarged cranial sutures, followed by periosteal new bone formation on X-rays of the long bones. Ultimately, joint swelling and stiffness follow, typically involving the large joints. We report two unrelated patients with features of cranio-osteoarthropathy, both of whom also had a history of congenital heart disease. Moreover, the cases reported here, manifesting significant differences in radiological features, emphasize the variability of radiological findings which can attend this condition.
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- 2004
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