Congenital rickets.
Although rickets in premature newborns is known to occur, term babies presenting at birth is uncommon. We report a term baby born to a mother with osteomalacia, and presented at birth with signs of florid rickets which was confirmed biochemically. After 4 weeks of treatment, radiological signs of healing were seen.
Mohapatra
Arjit
A
LTM Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai-22, India.
Sankaranarayanan
K
K
Kadam
Sandeep S
SS
Binoy
S
S
Kanbur
W A
WA
Mondkar
J A
JA
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010018:Osteomalacia / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000209:etiology; D012279:Rickets / Q000151:congenital*