Curtius syndrome

Classification according to ICD-10
Q87.3	Congenital malformation syndromes with increased tissue growth in early childhood
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The Curtius syndrome is an outdated term for a hemihypertrophy ( Latin Dysfunctio pluriglandularis dolorosa ).

There is an overgrowth of parts of the body combined with various other changes.

The name goes back to a description from the year 1925 by the German internist Friedrich Curtius .

literature

R. Kühn, C. Mehlhorn: [A case of the rare Curtius syndrome]. In: Contributions to orthopedics and traumatology. Vol. 17, No. 8, 1970, ISSN  0005-8149 , pp. 479-484, PMID 5474768 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .
2. ↑ F. Curtius: Congenital partial giant growth with endocrine disorders. In: German Archive for Clinical Medicine , Leipzig, 1925, Vol. 147, pp. 310–319
3. ^ Who named it Curtius

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