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Hypomagnesaemia with Secondary Hypocalcaemia
In 1965, Paunier et al. described a child of 6 weeks who had generalized convulsions and tetany, associated with low serum magnesium and calcium levels. Magnesium therapy stopped the tetany and established a normal serum calcium level. Similar cases were later reported by Salet et al. (1966), Friedman, Hatcher, and Watson (1967), and Skyberg et al. (1967). Most of these authors suggested that t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107689608900532