Labels:text | screenshot | black | black and white | font | document OCR: Fig. 23.66 Nutritional rickets characteris kets is the radiological appearance of the hands. R eralisation term used when inadequate osteoid mi n of the affects the growing skeleton. This PA fil e hands of a two-year-old boy illustrates t ickets. characteristic appearance of nutritional esent and Gross demineralisation of the bones is entres is ossification of the secondary epiphysea. he delayed. Wide bands of translucency in hyseal metaphyses and irregularity of the mete al margins are characteristic. The distal ra the effects metaphyses are cupped or splayed due t eakened of weight bearing (i.e. crawling) on the bones, See also: · Osteomalacia
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