Rachitic rosary

Chest radiographs of patients with rickets, demonstrating a "rachitic rosary."
(A) Anteroposterior view^[1]. Observe the opaque, bulbous indentations of the lung adjacent to the enlarged costochondral junctions (thick arrows).
(B) Lateral view (in a different patient)^[2] showing the prominent costochondral junctions (dashed arrows).

(A) Reproduced with permission from: Yochum TR, Rowe LJ, Yochum and Rowe's Essentials of Skeletal Radiology, Third Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004. Copyright © 2004 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
(B) Peterson JJ, Berquist TH. Metabolic diseases. In: Berquist's Musculoskeletal Imaging Companion, 3rd ed, Peterson JJ (Ed), Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia 2017. Copyright © 2017. Reproduced with permission from Wolters Kluwer Health. Unauthorized reproduction of this material is prohibited.

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Rachitic rosary