Rickets in an adolescent girl.
The authors present a case of rickets in an adolescent girl who presented to the emergency department with bone pain. Emergency department staff should be aware that rickets is not just a disease of early childhood.
Leonard
Paul
P
Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK. paul_leonard@blueyonder.co.uk
Wilkinson
Graham
G
D000293:Adolescent; D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D010018:Osteomalacia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012279:Rickets / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D012606:Scotland