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free hydroxyproline/creatinine in urine
Indications:
- assessment of bone resorption (urine)
- acromegaly
- hyperthyroidism
- hyperparathyroidism
- Paget's disease of bone
- rickets, osteomalacia
- bone fracture
- bony metastases
- osteoporosis
- sarcoidosis
- severe burns
- acute osteomyelitis
- congenital hypophosphatasia
- fibrous dysplasia
- *growth spurts
- assessment of imminoglycinuria
Clinical significance:
- measure of collagen turnover
Related
4-hydroxyproline
General
urine creatinine ratio
References
- Clinical Guide to Laboratory Tests, 4th edition, HB Wu ed,
WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 2006
Components
creatinine in urine
free hydroxyproline in urine