Bilateral transverse (Bowdler) fibular spurs with hypophosphatasia in an adolescent girl.
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.
Uras
Ismail
I
Fatih University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics, Ankara, Turkey.
Uras
Nurdan
N
Karadag
Ahmet
A
Yavuz
Osman Yuksel
OY
Atalar
Hakan
H
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