Scapular Caffey’s disease: A masquerading swelling in an infant, a case report and review of literature

Caffey’s disease was characterized by a triad of symptoms, irritability, soft tissue swelling, and underlying cortical bone thickening. It mostly occurs before the first 5 months life in infancy. The knowledge this pathology essential as it masquerades wide range diseases including acute osteomyelitis, tumors, trauma, battered baby syndrome (child abuse), hypervitaminosis a, scurvy, infantile malignant osteopetrosis, neonatal tuberculosis, congenital syphilis, pseudoparalyis infancy which more common require specific management extensive surgery. Classically, hyperostosis early part year life. Infantile clinical (fever, soft-tissue hyperirritability) clinching radiographic picture (thickening or bony expansion). We reported case scapular swelling 2 -month-old infant where retrospective diagnosis caffey’s made. proposed high suspicion for hence appropriate management.