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Gross findings in the bones of a foal with rickets. Figure 1. Thoracic wall. Enlarged costochondral junctions (“rachitic rosary”) and calluses in several ribs. Inset: sagittal section of a costochondral junction showing metaphyseal widening and pallor. Figures 2, 3. Physes and metaphyses of long bones. Figure 2. Irregular thickening of the physis and metaphyseal pallor. Figure 3. Irregular thickening of the physis and conspicuous, parallel, tan-to-gray, metaphyseal line (arrow).
