The usefulness of clinical features to identify active rickets

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 229-237

  Thacker, Tom D ^a   Fischer, Philip R ^a   Pettifor, John M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH MONITORING; RICKETS;

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GROWTH PLATE; HUMAN; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LEG MALFORMATION; LEG PAIN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NIGERIA; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICKETS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STERNUM; WALKING; WRIST DISEASE; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KNEE JOINT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PAIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RICKETS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING; WRIST JOINT;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0036743293     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/027249302125001525     Document Type: Article

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