THE association of laryngismus, tetany and convulsions has been recognized since 1887, when Cheadle 1 referred to them as "the positive, comparative and superlative of the convulsive state in children ...
In contrast, no discrete, clinical syndrome of magnesium deficiency, comparable to that observed in animals, has been described in man. Experimental efforts to induce a simple dietary magnesium ...
Antibiotic prescribing in primary care for end-of-life cancer patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.
Background A 70-year-old man presented with a smooth lump on his buccal mucosa and right-sided cervical lymphadenopathy. Staging investigations revealed extensive sclerotic bone metastases and the ...
The first step in a identifying the etiology of hypomagnesemia is to evaluate fractional urinary excretion of magnesium, Dr. Agus said. A value greater than 4% indicates renal magnesium wasting; ...
Q: I'm 70 years old and I was recently told that I have a disease called tetany. I heard about this when, as a child, a friend of mine had lockjaw. I don't have any problems with my jaw, but my arms ...