softening of bone; growth disturbances in pediatric patients
vitamin D deficiency
osteomalacic disease
more commonly found in children causing growth disturbances -congenital: Vit D resistant rickets Fanconi's syndrome Renal tubular acidosis -acquired: pyelonephritis, AGN immune glomerulo-tubular nephritis
renal syndromes
linear areas of under-mineralized osteoid typically resulting in insufficiency fractures, classically bilateral and symmetric
looser’s zones
costochondral junctions
rachitic rosary
widening and increased density of zone of calcification
white line of scurvy
marginal spurring
pelkin sign
atrophic line
initially present only at margins?
truemmerfeld zone
corner (park) sign
halo epiphysis, hyper intense zone of provisional calcinosis occurring around epiphysis appearing as ringed epiphyses or halo epiphyses
wimberger’s sign