Characteristics of children with florid vitamin D deficient rickets in the Auckland region in 1998

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 1117, 2000, Pages 374-376

  Blok, Barbara H ^a   Grant, Cameron C ^b   McNeil, Alan R ^b   Reid, Ian R ^b  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RICKETS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PROGNOSIS; RICKETS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VITAMIN D;

EID: 0034622815     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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