Indian Journal of Dermatology (Jan 2013)

Ichthyosis associated with rickets in two Indian children

  • Dimple Kothari,
  • Bhavana Doshi,
  • Gaurav Garg,
  • Uday S Khopkar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.110877
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 58, no. 3
pp. 244 – 244

Abstract

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We wish to report two cases of rickets due to vitamin D deficiency secondary to underlying ichthyotic skin disorder. The first case is of an 8-year-old male with history of multiple fluid-filled lesions over the body that would rupture to heal with thickening and scaling of skin, suggestive of epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, and the second is of a 14-year-old female with thick, large, quadrilateral scales over the extremities and back clinically consistent with lamellar ichthyosis. Both showed improvement with parenteral vitamin D3 and oral calcium supplements in addition to topical emollients.

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