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Spiral Fracture in Young Infant Causing a Diagnostic Dilemma: Nutritional Rickets versus Child Abuse
Fractures are uncommon in young, nonambulatory infants. The differential diagnosis includes nonaccidental injury (NAI) and metabolic bone disease, including rickets.
Sonia Kaushal +3 more
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Diphtheria vaccination coverage among Nigerian children remains suboptimal (56%). Coverage is significantly lower in Northern states and inversely correlated with multidimensional poverty. Addressing poverty‐related deprivations is essential to improving immunization equity and curbing recurrent diphtheria outbreaks.
Olufemi Olulaja, Rana Jaber
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Rickets is a heterogeneous group of diseases of the growing child caused by defect mineralization of bone. Nutritional rickets is caused by deficiency of vitamin D, calcium or both.
Beck-Nielsen, Signe
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A Clinical Study of the Distribution and Morphology of Harris Lines
ABSTRACT Harris lines are commonly used in bioarcheology to infer lifestyle in ancient populations; however, their etiology and identification parameters are still under debate. The aim of this study is to observe the distribution of the lesions in a contemporary clinical sample to address their association with etiological factors, age, biological sex,
Claudia Moro +7 more
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Rickets is the clinical consequence of impaired mineralization of bone matrix throughout the growing skeleton in children, whilst osteomalacia is the result of this disturbance after the growth plates have fused in adults.
Whyte, MP, Thakker, Rajesh, Thakker, RV
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Intractable Rickets as Presenting Feature of Wilson's Disease
Rickets by definition is a condition in which the bone mineralization is defective. Among the large cause of Rickets (Vitamin D deficiency, gastrointestinal disorders, acidosis, renal tubular abnormalities...), Wilson's disease is a relatively rare cause.
A Bahrami-Ahmadi +3 more
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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ABSTRACT Background The impact of vitamin D on fall incidence remains controversial. We studied the effect of 5 years of vitamin D3 supplementation on the risk of falls in a double‐blind, placebo‐controlled randomized trial with generally healthy, community‐dwelling men and women in Finland.
Toni Rikkonen +9 more
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Key Clinical Message Rickets is not a disease of the past. We described a toddler who developed hypophosphatemic rickets associated with the use of elemental formula.
Kamal Abulebda +2 more
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