Unsuspected nutritional rickets.
Based on the presentation and clinical features of four cases of nutritional rickets, it is suggested that particular groups of children, namely vegetarians, children breast-fed for an unusually long time, and black children, are at risk to develop the nutritional deficiencies of vitamin D and calcium that lead to clinical rickets. The diagnoses in these cases were made by fortuitous radiologic examination, even though the children had been receiving regular pediatric supervision, indicating a lack of awareness of the condition. This report is intended to emphasize the reemergence of nutritional rickets and to illustrate the different modes of its clinical presentation.
D001942:Breast Feeding; D002118:Calcium / Q000172:deficiency; D002675:Child, Preschool; D014676:Diet, Vegetarian; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012279:Rickets / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000209:etiology
D014807:Vitamin D; D002118:Calcium