Wilson's disease – A rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease

We report a 16-year-old boy who presented with weakness of lower limbs. He was diagnosed to have Wilson's disease, renal tubular acidosis and osteoporosis. Screening of siblings showed that his younger sister was also affected by the disease.

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Autores principales: Subrahmanyam, D. K. S., Vadivelan, M., Giridharan, S., Balamurugan, N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4127837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25120295
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.132017
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author Subrahmanyam, D. K. S.
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spelling pubmed-41278372014-08-12 Wilson's disease – A rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease Subrahmanyam, D. K. S. Vadivelan, M. Giridharan, S. Balamurugan, N. Indian J Nephrol Case Report We report a 16-year-old boy who presented with weakness of lower limbs. He was diagnosed to have Wilson's disease, renal tubular acidosis and osteoporosis. Screening of siblings showed that his younger sister was also affected by the disease. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4127837/ /pubmed/25120295 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.132017 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Subrahmanyam, D. K. S.
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Giridharan, S.
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Wilson's disease – A rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease
title Wilson's disease – A rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease
title_full Wilson's disease – A rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease
title_fullStr Wilson's disease – A rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease
title_full_unstemmed Wilson's disease – A rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease
title_short Wilson's disease – A rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease
title_sort wilson's disease – a rare cause of renal tubular acidosis with metabolic bone disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4127837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25120295
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.132017
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