Rickets.
Nutritional (vitamin D deficiency) rickets is now a rarity in the industrial world because of food fortification. Most cases result from hereditary inborn errors of vitamin D metabolism or end-organ unresponsiveness as is exemplified in this case of hypophosphatemic rickets.
New Hampshire Bone & Joint Institute, Bedford, NH, USA.
Eugene E
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Berg
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007015:Hypophosphatemia, Familial / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012279:Rickets / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology
D014807:Vitamin D