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The Journal of Pediatrics

Volume 125, Issue 3, September 1994, Pages 487-490
The Journal of Pediatrics

Clinical and laboratory observation
Single-day therapy for nutritional vitamin D-deficiency rickets: A preferred method

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A single-day large dose of vitamin D (stosstherapy) was given to 42 patients with nutritional vitamin D-deficiency rickets. Stosstherapy is safe and effective, obviates problems with compliance, and, by evoking a response in 4 to 7 days in nutritional rickets, becomes a valuable diagnostic aid for patients in whom initial findings do not clearly distinguish nutritional rickets from familial hypophosphatemic rickets.

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