PEDIATRICS Vol. 8 No. 6 December 1951, pp. 788-794
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HYPERVITAMINOSIS A

Report of an Unusual Case with Marked Craniotabes

JAY M. ARENA M.D.1, PAUL SARAZEN JR. M.D.1, and GEORGE J. BAYLIN M.D.1

1 The Departments of Pediatrics and Radiology, Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital, Durham, N.C.

An unusual case of hypervitaminosis A with severe craniotabes in a 6frac12 month old infant is presented. This is the youngest infant reported with this condition and the first to present craniotabes.

Symptoms of hypervitaminosis A are compared with those of hypervitaminosis D and with those of infantile cortical hyperostosis. In the case presented prompt and complete disappearance of craniotabes and other symptoms followed withdrawal of administration of vitamin A.

Submitted on July 10, 1951