RT Journal
A1 FORBES GB
T1 CAlcium metabolism and the bone
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1969
FD November 1
VO 118
IS 5
SP 806
OP 806
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1969.02100040808029
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1969.02100040808029
AB This book will tell you almost all you want to know about calcium metabolism. The combined effort of two internists, a pediatrician, and a chemical pathologist, each of whom has worked in this field, it is a heavily referenced, amply illustrated, straightforward treatise on a complex subject.After a short description of bone as a tissue, the matter of the supply and transport of calcium is taken up, followed in turn by discussions of parathyroid hormone, thyrocalcitonin, and vitamin D. The various metabolic diseases of bone are then considered one by one, together with the appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment. There are discussions of inborn errors affecting bone, of magnesium and phosphorus metabolism, nephrocalcinosis, the various forms of resistant rickets, the effects of hormones on bone metabolism, and of the infantile hypercalcemic syndrome. The coverage is wide, but the field is so vast that the discussion of each topic must