title: Hypocalcaemic fit in an adolescent boy with undiagnosed rickets.
abstract: Rickets in early childhood has been well documented in the literature. We present a case report on a teenage Somalian boy who had a generalised tonic clonic fit (an unusual presentation of rickets in late childhood) and was diagnosed with vitamin D deficient rickets.
authors.affiliation: Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London, NW3 2QG, UK. iseerat@hotmail.com
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Seerat
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Greenberg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D006996:Hypocalcemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*