All are radiologic signs in scurvy EXCEPT:
Correct Answer: Cupping and fraying
Description: Wrist widening (splaying), Cupping and fraying occurs in rickets and not in scurvy. Radiological Signs of Scurvy include: Ground-glass appearance of long bones/ Pencil thin coex White line of Frankel on the ends of the shafts of the tibia and fibula Wimberger sign (Sclerotic ring around epiphysis) Trummerfeld zone (poorly formed trabeculae) Pelkan spur at the coical end Subperiosteal hemorrhages scorbutic rosary (swelling of costochondral junctions)
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