Scurvy mimic acute Leukemia in a female child and review of literature

Abstract

Scurvy is a nondiscriminatory disease process resulting from a nutritional deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Identifying scurvy can be demanding due to the perceived rarity of the condition, and it can become a tricky diagnostic question given to the variety of nonspecific symptoms, including skeletal and other systems affected. Diffuse musculoskeletal pain in children with no specific cause is usually fugue. Differential diagnoses include growing pain, joint hypermobility, psychogenic disorders, somatoform disorders, inflammatory diseases, and malignancies. Children with leukemia can be referred to the orthopedic when the diagnosis is still unknown; in fact, musculoskeletal pain or radiographic abnormalities can be very frequent at presentation and it could be the primary manifestation of leukemia and scurvy. We report one of rarest cases of patient present with feature of scurvy in developed area mimic Leukemia.