Gitelman syndrome, calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease and crowned dens syndrome. A new association?

Rheumatology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 610-613

  Gutierrez, Marwin ^a   Silveri, Ferdinando ^a   Bertolazzi, Chiara ^a   Salaffi, Fausto ^a   Giacchetti, Gilberta ^a   Girolimetti, Rita ^a   Filippucci, Emilio ^a   Grassi, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE; COLCHICINE; MAGNESIUM CARBONATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ARTHROCENTESIS; BONE EROSION; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CROWNED DENS SYNDROME; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GITELMAN SYNDROME; HAND PARESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPOCALCIURIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; LETTER; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK PAIN; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SYNOVITIS;

CHONDROCALCINOSIS; FEMALE; GITELMAN SYNDROME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; SYNDROME;

EID: 77950525161     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep324     Document Type: Letter

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