Pediatrics : the hygienic and medical treatment of children . J Chondrodystrophia foetalis in a girl of s>^ years. Hydrocephalus.— Chondrodystrophy has been mistaken for hydro-cephalus because it may show an increased circumference of the cran-ium with wide-open fontanels. The principal differentiating pointis the shortening of the limbs in chondrodystrophy, which is entirelyabsent in hydrocephalus. Osteogenesis Imperfecta.—In some cases of this disease the femoramay be shorter than normal, but it is easily recognized by the ten-dency toward multiple fractures, which are entirely absent in
Pediatrics : the hygienic and medical treatment of children . J Chondrodystrophia foetalis in a girl of s>^ years. Hydrocephalus.— Chondrodystrophy has been mistaken for hydro-cephalus because it may show an increased circumference of the cran-ium with wide-open fontanels. The principal differentiating pointis the shortening of the limbs in chondrodystrophy, which is entirelyabsent in hydrocephalus. Osteogenesis Imperfecta.—In some cases of this disease the femoramay be shorter than normal, but it is easily recognized by the ten-dency toward multiple fractures, which are entirely absent in chondrodystrophy. 372 Diseases op the Bones, Joints and Muscles PROGNOSIS.—When the condition is first seen in early infancy,the chances for ultimate survival are rather bad on account of thedelicacy and low resistance of these patients. In the few cases whichare first seen after childhood has been reached, the prognosis as tolife is good. TREATMENT.—No known treatment has any influence upon thecondition. The use of thjToid extract, or any other form of organo-therapy has proved to be entirely without ef
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