TY - BOOK AU - Sahar Saad Ibrahim AU - Hend Helal Alsherbeni , AU - Lamiaa Ali Mansour , AU - Manal Mohamed Sedky , TI - Estimation of vitamin D level and its effect on bone density in systemic sclerosis patients / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Sahar Saad Ibrahim , KW - DEXA KW - Systemic sclerosis KW - Vitamin D N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - The specific aim was to study the level of vitamin D in systemic sclerosis patients and to study its effect on bone density evaluated by DEXA. 25 patients with systemic sclerosis and 25 healthy persons who served as control participated in this study. All patients and controls were subjected to full history taking, clinical examination, laboratory investigations (including serum 25 (OH) vitamin D) and radiological evaluation including DEXA ER -