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Disorders of Bone Mineralization

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Description: Several diseases can result in defective mineralization of bone in children, including the following:
Rickets
Nutritional rickets
Congenital rickets
Rickets of prematurity
Genetic rickets
Neoplastic rickets
Hypophosphatemic rickets
Drug-induced rickets
Renal causes - Renal osteodystrophy, Fanconi syndrome
Tumor-induced osteomalacia
Other causes
Hypophosphatasia
McCune-Albright syndrome
Osteogenesis imperfecta with mineralization defect (syndrome resembling osteogenesis imperfecta)

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Added: Tue Jun 12 2007