A Child with Familial Hypophosphatemic Ricket: A case report.
- Author:
Eun Seok CHOI
1
;
Sae Yoon KANG
;
Yeon Soo LEE
;
Jang Hyu CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Familial hypophosphatemic ricket;
Brainstem auditory evoked potential;
Growth retardation;
Genu varum
- MeSH:
Alopecia;
Auditory Pathways;
Child*;
Coxa Vara;
Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem;
Female;
Gait;
Genu Valgum;
Genu Varum;
Hearing;
Humans;
Osteogenesis;
Rickets, Hypophosphatemic*;
Skull
- From:Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
1997;21(3):623-
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Familial hypophosphatemic ricket (Vitamin D-resistant ricket), first described by Albright in 1937, has been known to be transmitted as an X-linked dominant trait in most families. Children with this disease would show growth retardation with characteristic clinical features such as congenital alopecia, genu varum or genu valgum, coxa vara and waddling gait. Although the physical features associated with this disease have been documented frequently, the potential involvement of auditory pathway due to abnormal bone formation in skull has not been explored frequently. We report a twenty six-month-old female child with familial hypophosphatemic ricket who presented abnormal findings of brainstem auditory evoked potential study. The impaired hearing function should be alerted as one of possible accompanying disabilities of the disease.
