Post-gastrectomy bone disease undiagnosed for forty years

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 1093, 1999, Pages 290-292

  Ghose, Roy ^a  

^a Ashburton Hospital   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PHOSPHATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD; BONE DENSITY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; OSTEOMALACIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PEPTIC ULCER; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; BIOPSY; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM; FEMALE; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, SECONDARY; OSTEOMALACIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PHOSPHATES;

EID: 0033551629     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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