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Adult Rickets

Known as: Osteomalacia, Rickets, Adult, adults rickets 
A condition in adults in which bones become soft and deformed because they don't have enough calcium and phosphorus. It is usually caused by not… 
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Insights into material and structural basis of bone fragility from diseases associated with fractures: how determinants of the biomechanical properties of bone are compromised by disease.
Minimal trauma fractures in bone diseases are the result of bone fragility. Rather than considering bone fragility as being the… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Low level cadmium exposure, renal and bone effects - the OSCAR study
It is well known that high cadmium exposure causes renal damage, osteoporosis and osteomalacia, whereas the dose-response… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
The role of trace elements in uraemic toxicity.
Although most research on uraemic toxicity has focused on the retention or removal of organic solutes, subtle changes in the… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Long-term nocturnal calcium infusions can cure rickets and promote normal mineralization in hereditary resistance to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D.
We report the beneficial effects of calcium infusions in a child with hereditary resistance to 1,25(OH)2D and alopecia. This… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
METABOLITES OF VITAMIN D IN HUMAN VITAMIN-D DEFICIENCY: EFFECT OF VITAMIN D3 OR 1,25-DIHYDROXYCHOLECALCIFEROL
Review
1976
Review
1976
Hypophosphataemic osteomalacia in fibrous dysplasia.
We describe three patients with fibrous dysplasia of bone in whom there was evidence of hypophosphataemic osteomalacia or rickets… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
VARIABLE RESPONSE TO LONG-TERM 1α-HYDROXYCHOLECALCIFEROL IN HÆMODIALYSIS OSTEODYSTROPHY
Review
1975
Review
1975
Osteomalacia associated with anticonvulsant drug therapy in mentally retarded children.
A survey of 289 severely retarded inpatients at a school for retarded children in American Fork; Utah revealed 67 patients with… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Natural and Synthetic Sources of Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Man
THE antiricketic sterols are both assimilated from the diet and endogenously produced by ultraviolet irradiation of cutaneous 7… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Incidence of Anticonvulsant Osteomalacia and Effect of Vitamin D: Controlled Therapeutic Trial
The bone mineral content (B.M.C.) in both forearms (related to total body calcium) was measured by photon absorptiometry for a… 
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