Letter: Aetiology of chronic renal failure and renal osteodystrophy.
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Divalent ion metabolism and osteodystrophy in chronic renal failure.
The widespread use of clhronic dialysis and renal homotransplantation, while prolonging the lives of patients with chronic renal failure, have concomitantly resulted in the appearance of severe disorders of calcium and phosphorus metabolism and disabling renal osteodystrophy (retardation of growth and dwarfism, osteitis fibrosa, rickets or osteomalacia and, at times, osteosclerosis). Furthermor...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5971.616-b