VITAMIN-C-DEFICIENCY (SCURVY) IN PEDIATRI CS

We report a 2 years old girl affected with scurvy. The clinical onset was characterized by lower limb pain so severe that she was enable to walk, and by mucous-cutaneous haemorrhage. These data firstly addresse d the diagnosis toward rheumatological or malignant diseases. Subseque ntly the peculiar eating habits of the girl together with the radiolog ic findings led us to the correct diagnosis. The nearly undetectable a scorbic acid plasma concentration definitively confirmed the diagnosis . The reported case allows us to discuss the differential diagnosis of scurvy.