Ever-changing concepts of calciphylaxis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-8

  Fukagawa, Masafumi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calciphylaxis; Uremia; Vascular calcification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SALT; FETUIN; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN; VITAMIN D;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; GANGRENE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORTALITY; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PATHOGENESIS; PENIS DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SKIN NECROSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CALCIPHYLAXIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LONG-TERM CARE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; PENILE DISEASES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1142275270     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.7     Document Type: Editorial

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