Rickets vs. abuse

Reply regarding rickets vs. abuse: the evidence - Semantic Scholar

In the face of this epidemic, why aren't there more reports of radiographic evidence of rickets in infants <6 months of age? Jenny [1], Chesney [2], ...

Calciferol Deficiency Mimicking Abusive Fractures in Infants

is tightly intertwined with that of American pediatrics. Rickets was a widespread affliction of children in urban areas in the 19th and early 20th centuries ...

Reply regarding rickets vs. abuse: the evidence - CiteSeerX

Jenny's article, referenced in Slovis and Chapman [3], on evaluating infants with multiple fractures states that a 25-. OH-vitamin D level can ...

Rickets vs. abuse: a national and international epidemic - ProQuest

Rickets vs. abuse: a national and international epidemic. Keller, Kathy A ... Keywords Rickets . Child abuse . Metabolic bone disease . Nonaccidental injury.

Are There Hallmarks of Child Abuse? I. Osseous Injuries

This paper examines the specificity of the classical metaphyseal lesion (CML) and rib fractures as hallmarks of child abuse. Recently, vitamin D deficiency ( ...

Calciferol Deficiency Mimicking Abusive Fractures in Infants

Rickets was a widespread affliction of children in urban areas in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Mellanby recognized the anti-rachitic properties of a fat- ...

Spiral Fracture in Young Infant Causing a Diagnostic Dilemma ...

The differential diagnosis includes nonaccidental injury (NAI) and metabolic bone disease, including rickets. While rickets typically present ...

Rickets or abuse? A histologic comparison of rickets and child ...

Schilling S, Wood JN, Levine MA, Langdon D, Christian CW. Vitamin D status in abused and nonabused children younger than 2 years old with fractures. Pediatrics.

Infantile Rickets Causes Devastation to Families, Even Today

GrassrootsHealth occasionally receives an email from a parent or grandparent struggling with the consequences of infantile rickets, often mis- ...

Differential diagnosis of suspected child physical abuse

Child abuse: Social and ... and hand in a child with rickets · Rachitic rosary · Pseudofractures in osteomalacia. Loading. Please wait.

How Can Bruising and Fractures Be Used to Determine if Child ...

Rickets/Vitamin D Deficiency: Rickets is a disease of growing bone that is unique to children and adolescents. Vitamin Deficiency rickets occurs ...

Asymptomatic Infant Rib Fractures Are Primarily Non-abuse-Related ...

With vitD deficiency and infantile rickets (vitD/IR), and an osteoporotic state, the probability of damage and cracks increases. The ribs are much more prone to ...

Another missed diagnosis of rickets leads to tragic consequences

X rays showed 'healing fractures' on the baby's limbs. This seemed to be enough for the clinicians to lock onto a diagnosis of child abuse and ...

Child abuse fractures – 96 percent were associated with poor bones ...

Results Seventy-five of 78 cases showed poor bone mineralization with findings of healing rickets indicating susceptibility to fragility ...

Bones, Breaks, and the Battered Child: Is It… | Relias Media

... and metaphyseal fractures similar to those seen in child abuse.47,48. Rickets and scurvy also produce radiologic bone abnormalities resembling child abuse.

High Risk of Bias in a Systematic Review of Rib Fractures...

Of those, 24 were classified as accidental, and 2 had OI. Abuse diagnosis was set in 28 cases; those were associated with prematurity, multiple births, and ...

Fractures | Child Abuse | Stanford Medicine

Mimics of abuse fractures: osteogenesis imperfecta; rickets; scurvy; syphilis; birth trauma; neoplasia; healed infection. See Radiology reference web page for ...

Fracture from Child Abuse or Bone Disease?

Other diseases such as dietary deficiencies, rickets, metabolic bone disease, copper deficiency, and biliary atresia can also mimic CAN. The diagnosis for ...

Controversies in the Evaluation of Young Children with Fractures

How does the analysis of injury biomechanics and fracture type help us? Does a delay in obtaining medical care affect the assessment of child abuse or neglect?

Absence of rickets in infants with fatal abusive head trauma and ...

There were no radiographic or pathologic features of rickets in the cohort. The findings provide no support for the view that the CML is due to rickets. Rather, ...