Data on 36 patients with vitamin-D-resistant rickets indicate that the disease is manifested primarily by shortness of stature. This shortness appears to be limited to the lower extremities. The ...
Rickets is a bone disease that is associated with low serum calcium and/or phosphate levels, primarily leading to widening and delayed mineralization of growth plates. The prevalence of rickets has ...
ALTHOUGH both prophylactic and curative technique against rickets is now highly developed, the pathogenesis of the disease is still far from being adequately understood. Recent experimental ...