Neonatal rickets. Histopathology and quantitative bone changes.

Neonatal rickets. Histopathology and quantitative bone changes.

Ribs from 3 preterm infants, who had died after prolonged intravenous feeding and artificial ventilation, were examined histologically and assessed for the degree of osteomalacia and osteoporosis in cancellous bone of the shaft. A grid counting technique was used. Osteomalacia was noted in all 3 cases but to a lesser degree than in classical vitamin D-deficient controls. Osteoporosis was pronou...

The Bone Changes Occurring in Renal and Coeliac Infantilism, and Their Relationship to Rickets: Part I. Renal Rickets.

The occurrence of bone deformities associated with the presence of albumin in the urine was first observed by R. C. Lucas (1) who in the year 1883 published a paper entitled " A Form of Late Rickets associated with Albuminuria." A perusal of this paper, however, shows that the cases described were not examples of renal infantilism. The interest of British paediatricians in renal infantilism was...

Neonatal rickets in one of identical twins.

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Neonatal rickets in Asian immigrant population.

The Bone Changes Occurring I Renal and Coeliac Infantilism and Their Relationship to Rickets

The occurrence of bone deformities in coeliac disease appears completely to have escaped recognition until within recent years; a somewhat remarkable fact considering the frequencyand the occasional greatseverityof these changes. Probably some of the cases have not been recognised as due to coeliac disease, and have thereby helped to swell that inchoate group of bone disorders called "late rick...