Rickets

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• Synonyms

  • Rachitis

• Causes

  • Vitamin D deficiency
  • Vitamin D resistant rickets

• Effects

  • Frontal bossing
  • Rachitic rosary
  • Pectus carinatum
  • Lumbar lordosis
  • Bowed legs
  • Waddling gait
  • Pathological fracture
  • Cephalopelvic disproportion
  • Secondary hyperparathyroidism
  • Kyphosis
  • Acquired cataract

• Parents

  • Metabolic bone disease

• Description

  • "Defective mineralization of bones before epiphyseal closure "