The Role of Calcium in Knock Knees and Short Stature

Rickets is a disorder characterized by defective mineralization of the growth plate and can result from nutritional deficiency, genetic defects in renal phosphate absorption or the formation slash action of 125 hydroxivitamin D. Treatment of familial hypophosphatemic Rickets includes medical management with Calcetrial as well as surgical correction of lower lymph deformities using hemiphyseo-desis slash guided growth. There are a variety of fixation devices including K-wires, plates, intramagillary nails, and or external fixation.