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The bone and mineral manual : a practical guide / editors, Michael Kleerekoper, Ethel S. Siris, Michael McClung.

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The bone and mineral manual : a practical guide / editors, Michael Kleerekoper, Ethel S. Siris, Michael McClung.
Publication
San Diego : Academic Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Kleerekoper, Michael.
  • McClung, Michael.
  • Siris, Ethel S.
Description
xv, 173 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
Handbook.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Diagnostic procedures -- Practical guide to bone densitometry -- Indications for bone mass measurement -- Laboratory analyses useful in the diagnosis of calcium metabolic disorders -- Biochemical markers of bone remodeling -- Skeletal imaging: radiographs, CT, MRI -- Scintigraphy -- Bone biopsy in malignant and metabolic bone diseases -- Clinical disorders -- Neonates and children -- Hypocalcemia and hypercalcemia in neonates -- Preterm infants with fractures -- Rickets -- Osteogenesis imperfecta -- Juvenile osteoporosis -- Fibrous dysplasia -- Adolescents -- Secondary amenorrhea -- Young adults -- Nephrolithiasis -- Acute spinal cord injury, closed head injury, and reflex sympathetic dystrophy -- Osteoporosis -- Prevention of bone loss -- Prevention of fractures in patients with low bone mass -- Evaluation -- Osteoporosis in men -- Steroid-induced osteoporosis -- Organ transplantation -- Pharmacologic therapy -- Nonpharmacologic therapy -- Other bone diseases -- Paget's disease -- Renal bone diseases -- Metastatic bone disease -- Osteomalacia -- High bone mass -- Abnormal serum calcium -- Primary hyperparathyroidism -- Nonparathyroid chronic and acute hypercalcemias -- Hypocalcemia -- Patient and family education and support -- Principles of patient and family education and support -- Resources for education and support.
ISBN
0124126502
LCCN
98083212
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries