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The effects of intravenous pamidronate on the bone tissue of children and adolescents with osteogenesis imperfecta.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Nov 2002
Rauch Frank, Travers Rose, Plotkin Horacio, Glorieux Francis H
Abstract excerpt
Cyclical pamidronate infusions increase bone mass in children suffering from osteogenesis imperfecta. The histological basis for these effects remains unknown. Therefore, we compared parameters of iliac bone histomorphometry from 45 patients before and after 2.4 +/- 0.6 years of pamidronate treatment (age at the time of the first biopsy, 1.4-17.5 years; 23 girls). Although biopsy size did not change significantly...
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