Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences on calcified tissues

ba0004p140 | (1) | ICCBH2015

Rickets in two patients pediatrics

de Beldjenna Liliana Mejia , Lammoglia Juan Javier , Rengifo Anuar

The Rickets is a disease which disturbs normal bone formation through different methods, like vitamin D deficiency, malabsorption, chronic renal disease, metaphisary dysplasia, low phosphorus and resistant rickets.The peak age at which rickets is most prevalent is usually 3–18 months, and the characteristic clinical features of this metabolic bone disease include enlargement of the epiphyses of the long bones and rib cage, bowing of the legs, bendin...