Rickets (Osteomalacia): Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99).

  • Crux varum congenitum and tibia vara; both usually unilateral, in contrast to rickets

Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).

  • Calcipenic rickets [due todecreased serum calcium → elevated parathyroid hormone]
  • Hypophosphatasia (HPP; synonyms: Rathbun syndrome, phosphatase deficiency rickets; phosphatase deficiency rickets) – rare, genetic, currently incurable bone metabolism disorder manifesting primarily in skeletal structure; defective bone and tooth mineralization, premature loss of deciduous and permanent teeth.
  • Phosphopenic rickets [due tonormal serum calcium → parathyroid hormone normal]
  • Tumor rickets

Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach and intestine (K00-K67; K90-K93).

Neoplasms (C00-D48)