Disseminated calcification with predominant muscle and cerebral involvement in a child with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: A case report

Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 593-600

  Liu, Jinsong ^a   Sulh, Muhammadsamir A ^a   Zagzag, David ^a   Reuben, Richard ^a   Alba Greco, M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Blood vessels; Calcification; Central nervous system; Children; Diaphragm; HIV; Myocardium; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CALCIFICATION; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAPHRAGM; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0030978049     PISSN: 10771042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/107710497174561     Document Type: Article

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