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REPORT OF A CASE

OLAN R. HYNDMAN, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1930;21(1):12-31.

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Considerable interest has recently been aroused concerning a disease entity of the skeleton which has been referred to most commonly as multiple cartilaginous exostoses. Certainly the manifestation of interest in the disease in America can be said to be recent, for the first case reported in this country was by Gibney¹ in 1875. Not unlike most disease entities of the skeleton, this disease has been given a name by almost every author who has written about it. Like practically all of the hereditary disease entities of the skeleton, its etiology remains a mystery.

It is not within my province in this paper to discuss in detail the disease itself, for this has been adequately done in a number of relatively recent papers, particularly in that of Albert Ehrenfried.²

The studies here are devoted to three aspects of the disease: (1) a brief study of the disease as represented . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
IOWA CITY

From the Department of Surgery of the University Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Feb. 3, 1930.

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