rickets; juvenile osteomalacia; infantile osteomalacia

Introduction

Vitamin D deficiency in children.

Pathology

• overproduction & deficient calcification of osteoid tissue

Clinical manifestations

• skeletal deformities
• disturbances in growth
• tetany (uncommon)
• irritability
• listlessness
• generalized muscle weakness
• fractures are common

Laboratory

hypocalcemia

More general terms

• osteomalacia
• vitamin D deficiency

More specific terms

• hereditary rickets

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/277440
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/307800
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/264700
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/600081
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/193100
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/241530
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/241520
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/600785
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/300554
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/612089
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/613312