Syndrome characterized by osteitis fibrosa disseminata, areas of pigmentation and endocrine dysfunction, with precocious puberty in females - Report of five cases
Syndrome characterized by osteitis fibrosa disseminata, areas of pigmentation and endocrine dysfunction, with precocious puberty in females - Report of five cases
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm193704292161701
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发表时间:
1937-01-01
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
Smith, P
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作者:
Albright, F;Butler, AM;Smith, P
seem to be totally disconnected, are found to occur together in a sufficient series of patients, some relation between them is apparent. Such is the case in thebizarre syndrome which is the subject of this paper. Five cases of this syn-drome are reported here. A sixth case was seen at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York and is being reported in a separate communication by McCune^ t A seventh case was seen more recently in Albany and will be reported by Gorham, Campbell and Howard. 5t In ad-dition, in a search of the literature McCune and we ourselves have found 9 strikingly similar cases and 5 suggestively similar ones. The characteristics of the syndrome are:(a) Bone lesions which have a marked tend-ency to be unilateral and which show osteitis fibrosa on histologie examination.(b) Brown nonelevated pigmented areas of the skin which tend to be on the same side as the bone lesions.(c) An endocrine dysfunction which in fe-males isassociated with precocious puberty.CASE REPORTS Case 1. NW (M. GH No. 330635). The pa-tient, aged23, entered the hospital, July 9, 1933, complaining of pain in the right hip of 15 years' duration. Her trouble first began at the age of 8 when she sustained a fracture of the right femur while running about at play. She had had seven subsequent fractures of the right femur at different sites. There had been one fracture of the