Deficiency type rickets associated with precocious puberty, mental retardation and phthisis bulbi.
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year-old) who had precocious puberty, mental retardation, phthisis bulbi and severe rickets, was presented. The parents were not relative. Her father and brother (the fifth brother out of 6 siblings) had slight mental retardation and ocular defects such as coloboma of the optic disc (father and brother), microphthalmia, cataract, and rotatory nystagmus (father). At the age of 3 years, the patient had suffered from pyelonephritis which was found not improved when she was admitted to our clinic at the age of 6 years 2 months. A deficiency type of rickets, which was not
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine
دوره 101 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1970