title: Bilateral transverse (Bowdler) fibular spurs with hypophosphatasia in an adolescent girl.
abstract: Hypophosphatasia is a clinically heterogeneous inheritable disorder characterized by defective bone mineralization and the deficiency of serum and tissue liver/bone/kidney alkaline phosphatase activities. Due to the mineralization defect of the bones, various skeletal findings can be radiologically observed in hypophosphatasia. Bowing and Bowdler spurs of long bones are the characteristic findings. The Bowdler spurs reported on in the previous pertinent literature were observed in the perinatal aged patients and these lesions have rarely involved adolescents. We herein report on a 14-year-old girl with fibular Bowdler spurs.
authors.affiliation: Fatih University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ismail
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Uras
authors.forename: Nurdan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Uras
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karadag
authors.forename: Osman Yuksel
authors.initials: OY
authors.lastname: Yavuz
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Atalar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005360:Fibula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007014:Hypophosphatasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography