Hypercalcemia in an Anephric Patient with Sarcoidosis: Evidence for Extrarenal Generation of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 305, Issue 8, 1981, Pages 440-443

  Barbour, Galen L ^a   Coburn, Jack W ^a   Slatopolsky, Eduardo ^a   Norman, Anthony W ^a   Horst, Ronald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL;

CASE REPORT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; HYPERCALCEMIA; KIDNEY; KIDNEY AGENESIS; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 0019829533     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198108203050807     Document Type: Article

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