Metaphyseal fractures in osteogenesis imperfecta.
Forty-one children with osteogenesis imperfecta have been reviewed. A minority (7/41) showed small metaphyseal fractures, resembling those seen in non-accidental injury, but in all of these there was obvious generalized bone disease so that confusion with non-accidental injury did not occur.
D001497:Battered Child Syndrome; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010013:Osteogenesis Imperfecta / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging