Detecting rickets in premature infants and treating them with calcitriol: Experience from two cases
A premature infant is a baby born before 37 weeks of gestation. Rickets is a bone disease characterized by growth retardation due to the expansion of the hypertrophic chondrocyte layer of the growth plate and a failure to mineralize bone. Consequently, the bone is soft and permits marked bending and...
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| Formato: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Wiley
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences |
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| Acceso en liña: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1607551X12001039 |
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