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Classroom classification

百科

Osteomalacia and rickets

骨外科

Common symptoms

无力、疲劳、表情淡漠、食欲不振、骨质疏松、骨软化、骨痛、维生素D缺乏、串珠肋、窒息

The pathology of disease

Osteomalacia (adults) and rickets (children) are defective mineralization from vitamin D deficiency; rickets has bone deformity in children; osteomalacia bone pain in adults; vitamin D/calcium.

Symptoms

Rickets (children): bow legs, rachitic rosary, growth delay. Osteomalacia (adults): bone pain, proximal weakness, low Ca/Phos, high PTH

Causes

Vitamin D deficiency; dietary; lack of sun; malabsorption; renal; phosphate wasting.

Treatment

Vitamin D supplementation; calcium; sun exposure; treat malabsorption/renal; endocrinology

Dept

Endocrinology / pediatrics / rheumatology.

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