Calcium deficiency rickets: extending the spectrum of 'nutritional' rickets

Arch Dis Child. 2014 Sep;99(9):794-5. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306465. Epub 2014 Jun 19.

Authors

Jeremy Allgrove¹, M Zulf Mughal²

Affiliations

¹ Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Barts Health NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, London, UK Honorary Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK.
² Consultant in Paediatric Bone Disorders & Honorary Professor of Child Health, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.

PMID: 24947283
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306465

No abstract available

Keywords: Bone Disease; Paediatric Practice; Therapeutics; Tropical Paediatrics.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Calcium / deficiency*
Child
Child, Preschool
Humans
Rickets / drug therapy
Rickets / etiology*
Rickets / physiopathology
Vitamin D / therapeutic use
Vitamin D Deficiency / complications*
Vitamin D Deficiency / drug therapy
Vitamin D Deficiency / physiopathology

Substances

Vitamin D
Calcium