Rickets

Case contributed by Ian Bickle
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Bowing of the legs.

Patient Data

Age: 5 years
Gender: Female
x-ray

Skeletally immature patient.

Bowing of the legs.

Fraying of the femoral, tibial and fibular metaphyses with splaying and cupping of metaphyseal ends.

Case Discussion

The full house of findings of rickets in one of the usual locations, at the knees.

A digitized film from a Chesterfield Royal teaching archive. 

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