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

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