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Calcium Metabolism and the Bone

Calcium Metabolism and the Bone This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This book will tell you almost all you want to know about calcium metabolism. The combined effort of two internists, a pediatrician, and a chemical pathologist, each of whom has worked in this field, it is a heavily referenced, amply illustrated, straightforward treatise on a complex subject. After a short description of bone as a tissue, the matter of the supply and transport of calcium is taken up, followed in turn by discussions of parathyroid hormone, thyrocalcitonin, and vitamin D. The various metabolic diseases of bone are then considered one by one, together with the appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment. There are discussions of inborn errors affecting bone, of magnesium and phosphorus metabolism, nephrocalcinosis, the various forms of resistant rickets, the effects of hormones on bone metabolism, and of the infantile hypercalcemic syndrome. The coverage is wide, but the field is so vast that the discussion of each topic must http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Diseases of Children American Medical Association

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Calcium Metabolism and the Bone

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This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This book will tell you almost all you want to know about calcium metabolism. The combined effort of two internists, a pediatrician, and a chemical pathologist, each of whom has worked in this field, it is a heavily referenced, amply illustrated, straightforward treatise on a complex subject. After a short description of bone as a tissue, the matter of...
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American Medical Association
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Copyright © 1969 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
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0002-922X
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10.1001/archpedi.1969.02100040808029
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Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This book will tell you almost all you want to know about calcium metabolism. The combined effort of two internists, a pediatrician, and a chemical pathologist, each of whom has worked in this field, it is a heavily referenced, amply illustrated, straightforward treatise on a complex subject. After a short description of bone as a tissue, the matter of the supply and transport of calcium is taken up, followed in turn by discussions of parathyroid hormone, thyrocalcitonin, and vitamin D. The various metabolic diseases of bone are then considered one by one, together with the appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment. There are discussions of inborn errors affecting bone, of magnesium and phosphorus metabolism, nephrocalcinosis, the various forms of resistant rickets, the effects of hormones on bone metabolism, and of the infantile hypercalcemic syndrome. The coverage is wide, but the field is so vast that the discussion of each topic must

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American Journal of Diseases of Children – American Medical Association

Published: Nov 1, 1969

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