HEREDITARY DEFORMING CHONDRODYSPLASIA—MULTIPLE CARTILAGINOUS EXOSTOSES

Abstract

In the fall of 1914 a case of multiple cartilaginous exostoses, so called, appeared during my service at the Children's Hospital. With the permission of Dr. Lovett I investigated the case clinically and roentgenologically, and removed a strip of bone from across an affected epiphysis for pathologic study. The results of this investigation were presented in an article¹published in May, 1915. In reviewing the literature, I found that although the disease is generally considered rare, and textbooks in English give little or no place to it, more than 600 cases had been reported from all over the world, and about 350 articles had been written on the subject. The American literature I found to be very scanty. As a logical sequence to my previous article, I proposed to discover if possible how frequent the condition really was in this country, and what its clinical and roentgenologic manifestations were.