Radiology Cases Rickets and Osteomalacia LSBU

Description: Lack of Vitamin D will reveal itself in those areas in the bone that show the greatest activity. Growth processes in the immature skeleton cause Rickets and structural responses to stress in the mature skeleton give rise to Osteomalacia. In the immature skeleton, the greatest activity is the ossification boundary at the metaphysis. Rickets causes accumulation of unossified matrix between epiphyseal plate and the bone of the adjacent metaphysis.