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Musculoskeletal Lab Values
Lab values
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Nursing
Undergraduate 3
09/10/2012

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Term
normal serum calcium value
Definition
9-10.5
Term
elevated calcium
Definition
metastatic cancers of the bone
Paget's disease
Bone fractures in healing stage
Term
decreased calcium
Definition
osteoperosis
osteomalacia
Term
normal phosphorus
Definition
3-4.5
Term
increased phosphorus (hyperphosphatemia)
Definition
bone fractures in healing stage
bone tumors
acromegaly
Term
decreased phosphorus (hypophosphatemia)
Definition
osteomalacia
Term
normal alkaline phosphatase (ALP)
Definition
30-120
Term
elevated alkaline phophatase (ALP)
Definition
metastatic cancers of the bone
Paget's
osteomalacia
Term
normal creatine kinase (CK) men
Definition
55-170
Term
normal CK women
Definition
30-135
Term
elevated CK
Definition
Muscle trauma
Progressive muscular dystrophy
Effects of electromyography
Term
normal Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)
Definition
100-190
Term
LDH elevations
Definition
Skeletal muscle necrosis
Extensive cancer
Progressive muscular dystrophy
Term
normal Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)
Definition
0-35
Term
AST elevations
Definition
Skeletal muscle trauma
Progressive muscular dystrophy
Term
normal aldolase (ALD)
Definition
3-8.2
Term
elevated ALD
Definition
Polymyositis and dermatomyositis
Muscular dystrophy
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