Endemic skeletal fluorosis
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Endemic skeletal fluorosis.
Teotia, M., Teotia, S. P. S., and Kunwar, K. B. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 686. Endemic skeletal fluorosis. Endemic skeletal fluorosis is described in 6 children aged 11 or over. Four cases were crippled with severe deformities in the spine, hips, and knees. All showed positive phosphorus, magnesium, and nitrogen balances and excessively positive calcium balances. The skeleta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.46.249.686