Pseudotumor cerebri and nutritional rickets.
A bulging fontanelle due to benign increased intracranial pressure is not generally recognized as a manifestation of nutritional rickets but should be considered in the appropriate clinical setting. Two children who we saw presented with bulging anterior fontanelles were found to have pseudotumor cerebri in association with nutritional rickets.
D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000209:etiology*; D012279:Rickets / Q000150:complications*