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Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders of the Skeleton

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This chapter deals with the metabolic and endocrine disorders that affect the skeleton in childhood. It also considers the results of excess and deficiency of vitamins and the toxic effects of metals on bone. These disorders deal with inherited conditions, such as osteopetrosis, that result from abnormal bone cell biology; with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, in which endocrine disturbances may also occur; and with ossification in the soft tissues, particularly when this is inherited. Osteogenesis imperfecta—an important metabolic disorder that has become a subject of its own [1]—and the skeletal dysplasias are dealt with in Chapter 7. The prevalence of individual metabolic bone diseases varies with age; in particular osteoporosis, so frequent in adult life, is rare in childhood.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK

    Roger Smith

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  1. Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, University of Oxford, Windmill Road, Oxford, OX3 7LD, United Kingdom

    Michael Benson

  2. Sick Children, Great Ormond Street Hospital for, Greater Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH, United Kingdom

    John Fixsen

  3. Orthopaedic Hospital, Princess Margaret Rose, Frogston Road West 41-43, Edinburgh, EH10 7ED, United Kingdom

    Malcolm Macnicol

  4. Orthopädie, Olgahospital, Bismarckstr. 8, Stuttgart, 70176, Germany

    Klausdieter Parsch

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Smith, R. (2010). Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders of the Skeleton. In: Benson, M., Fixsen, J., Macnicol, M., Parsch, K. (eds) Children's Orthopaedics and Fractures. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-611-3_8

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