Metabolic bone and stone disease

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Metabolic bone and stone disease

edited by B. E. C. Nordin, A. G. Need, H. A. Morris

Churchill Livingstone, 1993

3rd ed

Available at  / 8 libraries

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Includes index

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Description

This text gives a complete and up-to-date description of the pathogenesis, cinical picture, pathophysiology and treatment of all but the rarest forms of metabolic and stone disease. Contributors from Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, the USA, Europe and the UK have revised and expanded "Metabolic Bone and Stone Disease" to encompass the developments of the last nine years. A new section on diagnostic procedures emphasizes the value of the work to pathologists as well as clinicians.

Table of Contents

  • Osteoporosis
  • osteomalacia and rickets
  • primary hyperparathyroidism
  • non-parathyroid hypercalcaemias
  • hypocalcaemia
  • bone disease in renal failure
  • Paget's diseases of bones (osteitis deformans)
  • heritable bone disease, chondodysplasias and skeleltal poisons
  • urinary tract calculi
  • calcitonin gene products, medullary thyroid carcinoma and metabolic bone disease
  • ectopic calcification and ossification
  • biochemical investigations.

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