The importance of bone biopsy in chronic kidney disease–Mineral bone disorders

Renal osteodystrophy (ROD) is not a uniform bone disease; it is a heterogeneous group of metabolic bone diseases due to chronic kidney disease (CKD). The traditional term of ROD does not accurately include the wide spectrum of “CKD–mineral and bone disorder” (CKD–MBD) and has been restricted to defi...

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Main Authors: Periklis Dousdampanis, Kostantina Trigka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
Online Access:http://www.sjkdt.org/article.asp?issn=1319-2442;year=2017;volume=28;issue=5;spage=992;epage=996;aulast=Dousdampanis