Rickets E55.0

Author: Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

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Synonym(s)

English disease

Definition
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Manifestation of a vitamin D deficiency in the skeletal system during growth age as a result of inadequate calcification of the osteoid substance.

Clinic
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Craniotabes, frons quadrata, rachitic rosary, bell thorax, rachitic sitting kyphosis.

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Cod liver oil; English disease; Moeller-barlow-cheadlesche-disease; Vitamin d deficiency;

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

Author: Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

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