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Forty-eight infants of birthweight less than 1000 g who survived for more than 28 days, had wrist X-rays to prospectively determine the incidence of radiological rickets. Twelve infants (25%) had normal X-rays throughout, 10 infants (21%) showed osteopenia and 26 infants (54%) had classical changes of rickets of which 8 (17% of the total) had spontaneous fractures. There was poor correlation between peak values of serum alkaline phosphatase and the radiological changes.
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Lyon, A.J., McIntosh, N., Wheeler, K. et al. Radiological rickets in extremely low birthweight infants. Pediatr Radiol 17, 56–58 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02386596
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