Diagnostic approach to rickets: an Endocrine Society of Bengal (ESB) consensus statement

• Main Authors: Ajitesh Roy (Author), Amarta Shankar Chowdhury (Author), Arindam Ray (Author), Arjun Baidya (Author), Bibek Roychowdhury (Author), Dasarathi Sarkar (Author), Debmalya Sanyal (Author), Indira Maisnam (Author), Kaushik Biswas (Author), Kaushik Pandit (Author), Mainak Banerjee (Author), Moutusi Raychaudhuri (Author), Nilanjan Sengupta (Author), Partha Pratim Chakraborty (Author), Pradip Mukhopadhyay (Author), Pradip Raychaudhuri (Author), Pranab Kumar Sahana (Author), Rajan Palui (Author), Rana Bhattacharjee (Author), Sarmistha Mukhopadhyay (Author), Satinath Mukhopadhyay (Author), Sayantan Ray (Author), Soumik Goswami (Author), Subhankar Chowdhury (Author), Subhodip Pramanik (Author), Subir Chandra Swar (Author), Sujoy Ghosh (Author), Sunetra Mondal (Author), Tapas Chandra Das (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pediatric Endocrinology, 2024-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rickets, one of the leading causes of bony deformities and short stature, can be calciopenic (inciting event is defective intestinal calcium absorption) or phosphopenic (inciting event is phosphaturia). Early diagnosis and timely treatment of rickets are crucial for correction of the limb deformitie...