title: Rickets: Part II.
abstract: This is the continuation of a two-part review of rickets. This part emphasizes the specific pathophysiology, clinical features, pathoanatomy and radiographic findings of vitamin D deficiency rickets. Other forms of rickets, differential diagnostic considerations and the potential relationship between low levels of vitamin D metabolites and unexplained fractures in infants are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Imaging, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Box 9, 225 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA. rshore@northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Shore
authors.forename: Russell W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Chesney
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012279:Rickets / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*