Hypercalcemia due to Hypervitaminosis D: Report of Seven Patients
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Hypercalcemia due to hypervitaminosis D: report of seven patients.
We retrospectively studied seven children (six girls, one boy) aged from 7.5 to 25 months who presented to our institution after taking large doses of vitamin D (900 000-4 000 000 U) prescribed by medical practitioners for wrong indications like failure to thrive, etc. The clinical manifestations were constipation, decreased appetite, lethargy, polyuria, dehydration and failure to thrive. All p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0142-6338,1465-3664
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmp020