McKusick type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia (cartilage-hair hypoplasia, CHH) is a rare, inherited bone-growth disorder. Babies and children have short limbs, ...

Cartilage-hair hypoplasia syndrome is a rare genetic condition that affects the bones, hair, blood, and immune system. It is present from birth and usually ...

Autosomal recessive metaphyseal chondrodysplasia (often called McKusick-type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia or “cartilage-hair hypoplasia”) usually refers to a ...

Cartilage-hair hypoplasia (CHH) is a rare genetic condition. It mainly affects bone growth, hair, and the immune system. Children are usually short from birth. ...

Chondrosarcoma is a cancer that starts from cartilage-forming cells. It most often grows in bones of the pelvis, ribs, shoulder girdle, or skull base, and less ...

A malignant cartilage neoplasm is a cancer that starts from cells that make cartilage, the smooth, rubbery tissue that cushions joints. The most common type is ...

Cartilaginous cancer—called chondrosarcoma—is a malignant tumor that forms from cartilage-producing cells. It most often starts in the pelvis, shoulder, ribs, ...

Cancer of cartilage tissue is a rare cancer that starts in cartilage—the smooth, rubbery tissue that cushions the ends of bones at joints and forms parts of ...

Cartilage cancer is usually called chondrosarcoma in medical books. It is a malignant (cancerous) tumor that starts in cartilage cells, most often in the bones ...

Maroteaux-Le-Merrer-Bensahel syndrome is the name used for carpotarsal osteochondromatosis (CTOC), an ultra-rare primary bone dysplasia marked by abnormal bone ...

Carpotarsal osteochondromatosis (COT) is a very rare bone growth disorder. Extra bone-and-cartilage lumps (called osteochondromas) form around the small joints ...

Acrocephalopolysyndactyly type 2 is the medical name for Carpenter syndrome. It is a rare, inherited condition present from birth. Two body systems are ...

Carpenter syndrome is a rare genetic condition. It affects how the skull, face, fingers, toes, and some internal organs form before birth. The skull bones ...

Paraganglioma is a rare tumor that grows from special nerve-related cells called paraganglia. These cells sit beside blood vessels and nerves throughout the ...

A neoplasm of the carotid body (also called a carotid body tumor, a type of head-and-neck paraganglioma) is a growth that starts in the carotid body, a tiny ...

Chemodectomas (also called head & neck paragangliomas most commonly carotid body, jugulotympanic, vagal, or laryngeal tumors) are rare tumors that grow ...

A carotid body paraganglioma (CBP) is a slow-growing tumor that starts in the carotid body, a small sensor at the split of the carotid artery in the neck. The ...

Caroli syndrome is a rare birth (congenital) disorder of the bile ducts inside the liver. In this condition, the large bile ducts are abnormally wide (dilated) ...

Caroli disease is a rare, congenital (present from birth) condition of the bile ducts inside the liver. In this disorder, parts of the large intrahepatic bile ...

Carnosinemia is a very rare inherited metabolic disease. It happens when the body does not have enough of an enzyme called carnosinase. This enzyme normally ...