Precocious bilateral hip joint osteoarthritis is a "form-fruste" of the arthropathy of Hereditary Haemochromatosis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 719-721

  Carroll, Graeme J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHONDROLYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IRON STORAGE; MALE; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; OSTEOLYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; GENES; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; IRON; IRON METABOLISM DISORDERS; JOINT DISEASES; JOINTS; MUTATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, HIP;

EID: 77649341358     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.10.024     Document Type: Article

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