| Autor: |
Gordon S. Dugger, Roy W. Vandiver |
| Rok vydání: |
1966 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Neurosurgery. 25:300-303 |
| ISSN: |
0022-3085 |
| DOI: |
10.3171/jns.1966.25.3.0300 |
| Popis: |
Vitamin D res is tant r ickets has for the mos t p a r t been a concern of the internis t , pediat r ic ian or or thopedis t , a5 The neurosurgeon usually sees these pa t ien ts only in the evaluat ion of craniosynostosis which is said to occur more f requent ly in pa t i en t s wi th Vi tamin D res is tant r ickets t h a n in the general populat ion. 4'7 We have been unable to find repor ts indicat ing t h a t the bony changes of Vi t amin D res i s tan t r ickets m a y be a cause of spinal cord compression. We have s tudied an adu l t who had the s t igmata and family his tory typical of Vi tamin D resis tant rickets and who also had progressive paraplegia which we believe was caused by abnormali t ies of the lumbar and thoracic ver tebrae secondary to th is disease. |
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