Liver diseases and osteoporosis in children

摘要: Summary 1. Of 7 children with glycogen storage disease, 9 primary hepatic tumors, and 10 cirrhosis, approximately two thirds of them had osteoporosis, many also muscle atrophy growth retardation. 2. One child benign hepatomashowed dramatic improvement after the tumor was removed. 3. These observations suggest that a systemicdeficit protein may be an important etiological factor osteoporosis in liver diseases. 4. The pathogenesis deficit ineach type disease has been considered.