Vitamin A toxicity presenting as bone pain

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 556-558

  Baineni, Revanth ^a   Gulati, Reena ^a   Kumar, C G ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; RETINOL; TECHNETIUM;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BONE LESION; BONE PAIN; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHEMA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PALLOR; PAPULAR RASH; PERIOSTEUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BONE DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; RETINOL INTOXICATION; SCINTISCANNING;

BONE DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMANS; HYPERVITAMINOSIS A; MALE; PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; VITAMIN A;

EID: 84973334469     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-310631     Document Type: Article

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