- Original Article
- Eight cases of incidentally diagnosed as subclinical rickets
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Ji-Young Seo, Curie Kim, Hee-Woo Lee, Young-Min Ahn
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2008;51(8):812-819. Published online August 15, 2008
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Purpose : Vitamin D plays a key role in bone mineralization of the skeleton and vitamin D deficiency can lead to rickets. It is well known that vitamin D deficiency is common in breast fed infants. Of these patients, clinically, some have no signs of rickets, but laboratory and radiographic findings are diagnostic for vitamin D deficiency rickets (subclinical vitamin... |
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