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rickets; juvenile osteomalacia; infantile osteomalacia
Vitamin D deficiency in children.
Pathology:
- overproduction & deficient calcification of osteoid tissue
Clinical manifestations:
1) skeletal deformities
2) disturbances in growth
3) tetany (uncommon)
4) irritability
5) listlessness
6) generalized muscle weakness
7) fractures are common
Laboratory: hypocalcemia
Specific
hereditary rickets
General
osteomalacia
vitamin D deficiency
Database Correlations
OMIM correlations
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995