Treatment of vitamin D deficiency due to Crohn's disease with tanning bed ultraviolet B radiation

Gastroenterology

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1485-1488

  Koutkia, Polyxeni ^a   Lu, Zhiren ^a   Chen, Tai C ^a   Holick, Michael F ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE PAIN; CASE REPORT; CROHN DISEASE; DEMINERALIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM; ENTEROPATHY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; JEJUNUM; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0035210367     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/gast.2001.29686     Document Type: Article

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