Spontaneous fracture: Multiple causes

Consultant Pharmacist

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 100-112

  Wick, Jeannette Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Cerebral palsy; Compression fracture; Hypervitaminosis A; Osteoporosis; Periprosthetic fracture; Renal osteodystrophy; Spontaneous fracture

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; CINACALCET; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXERCALCIFEROL; GONADORELIN AGONIST; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARICALCITOL; RETINOL; SEVELAMER; VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE;

BONE DENSITY; BRUCELLOSIS; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELDERLY CARE; FRACTURE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; OSTEODYSTROPHY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RETINOL INTOXICATION; REVIEW; STRESS FRACTURE;

EID: 60849111948     PISSN: 08885109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4140/TCP.n.2009.100     Document Type: Review

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