Genitourinary tuberculosis as the cause of unexplained hypercalcaemia in a patient with pre-end-stage renal failure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 488-490

  Peces, Ramon ^a   De La Torre, Miguel ^b   Alcázar, Roberto ^b   Tejada, Fernando ^b   Gago, Emilio ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Calcitriol; Granulomatous diseases; Haemodialysis; Hypercalcaemia; Tuberculosis; Uraemia

Indexed keywords

CALCIFEDIOL; CALCITRIOL; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031965617     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027854     Document Type: Article

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