Effect of Inorganic Phosphorus on Bone Growth and Repair

Abstract

Conclusions

1. In the experimental animals, the feeding of inorganic phosphorus in doses large enough to cause transverse metaphyseal lines, has no demonstrable effect on the roentgenographic or microscopic appearance or the healing of fractures. 2. Transverse bands of increased density which may be produced at the juxta-epiphyseal region of growing children or animals by the feeding of phosphorus are probably “growth arrest lines” similar in their etiology to those produced by acute diseases such as scarlet fever