title: COMPACT BONE DEFICIENCY IN PROTEIN-CALORIE MALNUTRITION.
abstract: Children hospitalized for acute protein-calorie malnutrition in Guatemala City were not delayed in ossification status as compared with Guatemalan Indian children on their customary low-protein diets, but were markedly and often dramatically deficient in cortical bone.
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases; D001842:Bone and Bones; D002489:Central America; D002648:Child; D003677:Deficiency Diseases; D006166:Guatemala; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American; D007223:Infant; D011488:Protein Deficiency; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition; D011859:Radiography; D014481:United States
keywords: BONE DISEASES; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INFANT; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RADIOGRAPHY