Report of three cases of mild osteogenesis imperfecta

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  • Norimatsu Hiromichi
    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus
  • Maeshiro Masaharu
    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus
  • Ibaraki Kunio
    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus
  • Saito Hidehiko
    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Niigata
  • Ono Katsuo
    Hamagumi Children's Rehabilitation Center

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  • 軽症型骨形成不全症の3例

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Abstract

Three cases of mild osteogensis imperfecta in 8-, 9-, and 15-year-old boys are reported. The father of the 9-year-old boy experienced femoral fractures frequently in his childhood. Patients sustained fractures of their long bones or vertebrae several times early childhood. Their heights were within normal range and their eyes showed blue sclera. Cortical thinning on the diaphyses of their long bones and biconcave vertebra were recognized by X-ray without marked deformities. After a double-tetracycline-labellings histomorphometric study was performed on the iliac bone of the 8-year-old-boy, the following results were obtained: low total bone volume, high fractional resorption and osteoid surfaces, low corrected mineral appositional rate and hyperosteocytosis.

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  • Orthopedics & Traumatology

    Orthopedics & Traumatology 33 (4), 1217-1220, 1985

    West-Japanese Society of Orthopedics & Traumatology

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