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Pseudo-vitamin D deficiency rickets: report of a case
Helvetica Paediatrica Acta
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
A 19-month-old boy with repeated convulsions from the age of 7 months was found to have pseudo-vitamin D deficiency rickets. The convulsions were attributed to hypocalcaemia which is one of the main features of this type of rickets. High doses of vitamin D produced clinical, biochemical and radiographic cure.