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[Bone and joint diseases in children. Rickets].
Clinical calcium - 1 Jun 2010
Tanaka Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
Rickets is a disorder of growth plate chondrocytes. Its basic pathophysiology has been revealed as a defect in apoptosis of hypertrophic chondrocytes induced by low phosphate concentration in the body fluid. This review summarized recent topics in two major forms of rickets, vitamin D deficient rickets and hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets. Vitamin D deficient rickets reappeared all over the world due to...
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