Infantile cortical hyperostosis (ICH) is a self-limiting inflammatory disease characterized by swelling of soft tissues and periosteal hyperostosis mainly affecting long bones, mandible, clavicles, and ribs. It usually affects infants less than 6 months of age and spontaneously heals in the first year of life. However severe prenatal form of ICH is lethal in which extensive hyperostosis affects nearly all long bones and the fetus presents with polyhydramnios.
Category
Musculoskeletal disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
20 Developmental anomalies
Multiple developmental anomalies or syndromes
LD24 Syndromes with skeletal anomalies as a major feature
H00613 Infantile cortical hyperostosis
Pathway-based classification of diseases [BR:br08402]
Cellular process
nt06539 Cytoskeleton in muscle cells
H00613 Infantile cortical hyperostosis