clinical features
Last reviewed 01/2018
An infant with rickets may present with convulsions or tetany. The child may fail to thrive. On examination the child may be listless and flaccid.
Features of rickets include:
- craniotabes - soft skull bones in early life
- delayed closure of the anterior fontanelle
- thickening of the knees, ankles and wrists
- Harrison's sulcus
- prominence of costochondral junctions - "rachitic rosary"
- bowing of the radia, ulna, femur and tibia
- proximal myopathy and hypotonia
- pathological fractures
- reduced structural growth and bone pain