title: Ebb and flow rickets in a premature infant: the Afghan turban sign.
abstract: The pattern of alternating dense and lucent bands, with straight outer edges, at the youngest metaphysis of long bones, the "Afghan turban" sign, occurs when incompletely treated rickets has recurred and been retreated. Recognition of this, and other, rickets patterns allows the radiologist to influence treatment, as described in a very low birth weight infant.
authors.affiliation: Polish Mothers' Memorial Hospital, 281, Rzgowska Street, PL-93-338 Lódz, Poland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Biegański
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Oestreich
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rudecka
mesh_terms: D002968:Clavicle / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D005269:Femur / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D006811:Humerus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008297:Male; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012272:Ribs / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012279:Rickets / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index