Transient idiopathic periosteal reaction associated with dysproteinemia.
Periosteal reaction with new bone formation in a child is a radiographic finding with an extensive differential diagnosis. The present case is that of a child who presented with a clinical syndrome of fever, bone pain in the forearm and leg, bony tenderness in these areas, radiographic evidence of a periosteal reaction in both tibiae and ulnae, and an abnormality of serum proteins. It was a self-limited disease process requiring no specific treatment, with eventual return to normal of both the radiographic and serum protein abnormalities. Its relationship to Caffey's disease remains to be defined.
D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006942:Hypergammaglobulinemia / Q000150:complications*; D006958:Hyperostosis, Cortical, Congenital / Q000150:complications; D006984:Hypertrophy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007866:Leg; D010521:Periosteum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography