Nutritional Rickets Presenting with Myelofibrosis.

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2010-12
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We describe the clinical course of a 10-monthold breastfed infant with rickets and associated myelofibrosis presenting with anemia and hepatosplenomegaly. Over the follow up, on therapeutic supplementation of vitamin D, child showed reduction in liver and spleen size along with improvement in rickets, anemia, growth and developmental parameters.
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Nutritional rickets, Vitamin D supplementation, Reversible myelofibrosis
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Bhakhri Bhanu Kiran, Debata Pradeep K. Nutritional Rickets Presenting with Myelofibrosis. Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 2010 Dec ; 77 (12): 1437-1439.