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Teriparatide may accelerate the growth of a pre-existing malignant tumor in an elderly patient with osteoporosis: A case report

The present report describes a case in which teriparatide, which is widely used to treat osteoporosis, may have accelerated the growth of an undiagnosed pre-existing bone tumor of the femur. A 76-year-old woman visited hospital with pain in the right thigh after falling from a ladder. A non-patholog...

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Autores principales: Ogawa, Tetsuya, Ohshika, Shusa, Yanagisawa, Michiro, Kurose, Akira, Ishibashi, Yasuyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: D.A. Spandidos 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6951240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31929885
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/mco.2019.1966