The relationship of hypocalcemic convulsions related to nutritional rickets with age, gender, season, and serum phosphorus levels

Neurosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 302-305

  Bicakci, Zafer ^a  

^a KAFKAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; DIAZEPAM; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHOSPHORUS;

AGE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICKETS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; TREATMENT INDICATION; WINTER;

EID: 36949006996     PISSN: 13196138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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