%0 Journal Article
%T Intractable Rickets as Presenting Feature of Wilson's Disease
%A MB owlia
%A A Haghighi
%A J Shakeri
%A A Bahrami-Ahmadi
%J Journal of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences
%D 2004
%I Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences
%X 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. There are few cases of Wilson's disease presenting first as rickets in the literature.   Here we present an Afghan girl with Wilson's disease presenting with intractable Rickets.
%K Wilson's disease
%K vitamin D resistant Rickets
%K renal tubular acidosis.
%U http://jssu.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_id=1254&slc_lang=en&sid=1&ftxt=1