Case 3-2009: A 9-month-old boy with seizures

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 398-407

  Holick, Michael F ^a   Lim, Ruth ^b   Dighe, Anand S ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; FENTANYL; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; RANITIDINE; ROCURONIUM; VANCOMYCIN; 25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ERGOCALCIFEROL; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; BLOOD; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FONTANEL; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RICKETS; SEIZURE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

BREAST FEEDING; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRANIAL FONTANELLES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; ERGOCALCIFEROLS; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; INFANT; LUNG; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RICKETS; SEIZURES; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 58749107512     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0807821     Document Type: Article

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