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Osteopetrosis (Albers-Schönberg) (author's transl)

Helletzgruber M, Kovarik J, Plenk H, Seidl G, Linkesch W, Tilscher H, Weissel M, Willvonseder R

Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946), 1980

Abstract

Investigations of a patient with the benign adult form of osteopetrosis (Albers-Schönberg) revealed that the clinical symptoms correlated with a high bone metabolism, high calcium incorporation in bone, increased osteoclast activity and probably reactive increase of calcitonin in the blood.

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