Rickets

Rickets is a condition that results in weak or soft bones in children. Symptoms include bowed legs, stunted growth, bone pain, large forehead, and trouble sleeping. [Source: Wikipedia ]

Subtypes
Biliary rickets
Healing rickets
Severe rickets
May Cause
Basilar invagination
Biconcave vertebra
Bowed bones
Bowed tubular bones
Cataract
Congenital skull defect
Cortical bone thickening
Coxa vara
Craniosynostosis
Defective cranial ossification
Delayed bone age
Delayed tooth eruption
Dental defect
Diffuse demineralization of skull
Distal clavicle defect
Flaring of ribs
Flat femoral head
Fragmented femoral head
Fragmented or irregular femoral head
Generalized osteopenia or osteolysis of the jaws
Generalized skull thinning
Generalized small epiphyses
Generalized wide epiphyseal plate
Genu valgum
Genu varum
Humeral head deformity
Hyperphosphatasemia
Hypocalcemia
Incomplete ossification of cranial sutures
Indistinct epiphyses
Indistinct frayed metaphyses
Irregular epiphyseal ossification centers
Kyphosis
Large fontanelle
Loss of lamina dura of teeth
Medial proximal metaphyseal erosion of the long bones
Metaphyseal cupping
Metaphyseal fragmentation
Metaphyseal spur
Multiple abnormal epiphyses
Multiple expanding rib lesions
Pathologic fracture
Periosteal cloaking
Polyostotic bone lesions in an infant or young child
Premature craniosynostosis
Protrusio acetabuli
Pseudofracture
Rachitic rosary
Resorption of distal clavicle
Rib lesion in a child
Ring-shaped epiphysis
Scoliosis
Short ribs
Shortened bone with premature growth-plate closure
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Small anterior fontanelle
Small epiphysis
Symmetrical anterior rib flaring
Tam-o-shanter skull
Thin epiphyses
Tibiotalar tilt
Urinary tract calculus
Wide metaphysis
Wide sutures
Widespread demineralization with coarse trabeculation
Widespread osteosclerosis
Widespread osteosclerosis of medullary and cortical bone
Widespread predominantly medullary osteosclerosis
May Be Caused by
Acquired chronic biliary obstruction
Aluminum hydroxide hemodialysis
Aluminum-based antacid therapy
Amyloidosis
Anticancer drug nephrotoxicity
Axial osteomalacia
Bartter syndrome
Biliary atresia
Blind loop syndrome
Celiac disease
Chronic ethane-1-hydroxy-1,1-diphosphonate intoxication
Chronic obstructive renal disease
Congenital rickets
Crohn disease
Cystinosis
Dietary calcium deficiency
Diphosphonate treatment
Epidermoid nevus syndrome
Fanconi syndrome
Fibrogenesis imperfecta ossium
Fibrous dysplasia
Galactosemia
Gastric resection
GM1 gangliosidosis
Hereditary fructose intolerance
Hypophosphatasia
Idiopathic hypercalciuria
Idiopathic steatorrhea
Ifosfamide nephrotoxicity
Immunologic disorder
Laxative abuse
Liver failure
Lowe syndrome
Lymphoma
Magnesium sulfate
Malabsorption states
Maternal magnesium sulfate therapy
Melorheostosis
Mesenteric disease
Neonatal rickets
Netherton syndrome
Neurofibromatosis type 1
Obstructive jaundice
Oncogenic rickets
Osteopetrosis
Oxalosis
Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency
Pancreatitis
Paraneoplastic syndrome
Pernicious anemia
Phenolphthalein
Phenytoin
Polycystic kidney disease
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
Prolonged use of aluminum-containing antacid
Pseudovitamin D-deficiency osteomalacia
Pseudovitamin D-deficiency rickets
Puerperal osteomalacia
Renal osteodystrophy
Renal osteomalacia
Renal tubular acidosis
Scleroderma
Short bowel syndrome
Sjögren syndrome
Small bowel bypass
Small bowel fistula
Small bowel resection
Sprue
Tranquilizer therapy
Tyrosinemia
Tyrosinosis
Ureterosigmoidostomy
Vitamin D-deficient rickets
Vitamin D-dependent rickets
Vitamin D-resistant rickets
Williams syndrome
Wilson disease
Wilson syndrome
Basilar invagination
Biconcave vertebra
Bowed bones
Bowed tubular bones
Cataract
Congenital skull defect
Cortical bone thickening
Coxa vara
Craniosynostosis
Defective cranial ossification
Delayed bone age
Delayed tooth eruption
Dental defect
Diffuse demineralization of skull
Distal clavicle defect
Flaring of ribs
Flat femoral head
Fragmented femoral head
Fragmented or irregular femoral head
Generalized osteopenia or osteolysis of the jaws
Generalized skull thinning
Generalized small epiphyses
Generalized wide epiphyseal plate
Genu valgum
Genu varum
Humeral head deformity
Hyperphosphatasemia
Hypocalcemia
Incomplete ossification of cranial sutures
Indistinct epiphyses
Indistinct frayed metaphyses
Irregular epiphyseal ossification centers
Kyphosis
Large fontanelle
Loss of lamina dura of teeth
Medial proximal metaphyseal erosion of the long bones
Metaphyseal cupping
Metaphyseal fragmentation
Metaphyseal spur
Multiple abnormal epiphyses
Multiple expanding rib lesions
Pathologic fracture
Periosteal cloaking
Polyostotic bone lesions in an infant or young child
Premature craniosynostosis
Protrusio acetabuli
Pseudofracture
Rachitic rosary
Resorption of distal clavicle
Rib lesion in a child
Ring-shaped epiphysis
Scoliosis
Short ribs
Shortened bone with premature growth-plate closure
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Small anterior fontanelle
Small epiphysis
Symmetrical anterior rib flaring
Tam-o-shanter skull
Thin epiphyses
Tibiotalar tilt
Urinary tract calculus
Wide metaphysis
Wide sutures
Widespread demineralization with coarse trabeculation
Widespread osteosclerosis
Widespread osteosclerosis of medullary and cortical bone
Widespread predominantly medullary osteosclerosis
Acquired chronic biliary obstruction
Aluminum hydroxide hemodialysis
Aluminum-based antacid therapy
Amyloidosis
Anticancer drug nephrotoxicity
Axial osteomalacia
Bartter syndrome
Biliary atresia
Blind loop syndrome
Celiac disease
Chronic ethane-1-hydroxy-1,1-diphosphonate intoxication
Chronic obstructive renal disease
Congenital rickets
Crohn disease
Cystinosis
Dietary calcium deficiency
Diphosphonate treatment
Epidermoid nevus syndrome
Fanconi syndrome
Fibrogenesis imperfecta ossium
Fibrous dysplasia
Galactosemia
Gastric resection
GM1 gangliosidosis
Hereditary fructose intolerance
Hypophosphatasia
Idiopathic hypercalciuria
Idiopathic steatorrhea
Ifosfamide nephrotoxicity
Immunologic disorder
Laxative abuse
Liver failure
Lowe syndrome
Lymphoma
Magnesium sulfate
Malabsorption states
Maternal magnesium sulfate therapy
Melorheostosis
Mesenteric disease
Neonatal rickets
Netherton syndrome
Neurofibromatosis type 1
Obstructive jaundice
Oncogenic rickets
Osteopetrosis
Oxalosis
Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency
Pancreatitis
Paraneoplastic syndrome
Pernicious anemia
Phenolphthalein
Phenytoin
Polycystic kidney disease
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
Prolonged use of aluminum-containing antacid
Pseudovitamin D-deficiency osteomalacia
Pseudovitamin D-deficiency rickets
Puerperal osteomalacia
Renal osteodystrophy
Renal osteomalacia
Renal tubular acidosis
Scleroderma
Short bowel syndrome
Sjögren syndrome
Small bowel bypass
Small bowel fistula
Small bowel resection
Sprue
Tranquilizer therapy
Tyrosinemia
Tyrosinosis
Ureterosigmoidostomy
Vitamin D-deficient rickets
Vitamin D-dependent rickets
Vitamin D-resistant rickets
Williams syndrome
Wilson disease
Wilson syndrome