Caffey disease: What Patients Should Know
By Dr. Ruth Hall, DO · · Orthopedics
Patients often ask us about Caffey disease. Here is what our Orthopedics clinicians want you to know.
About this topic
Topic: Caffey disease. A bone inflammation disease that causes bone changes, soft tissue swelling and irritability in infants. The disease has been associated with COL1A1 gene. It has symptom soft-tissue swelling, has symptom bone lesions, and has symptom irritability.
Related care
- nutrition intake
- monoamine-depleting agent therapy
- gross motor therapy
- salivary cortisol test
- gamma glutamyl transpeptidase measurement
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