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Forty-one children with osteogenesis imperfecta have been reviewed. A minority (7/41) showed small metaphyseal fractures, resembling those seen in non-accidental injury, but in all of these there was obvious generalized bone disease so that confusion with non-accidental injury did not occur.
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