Vitamin D Testing

Infant's X-ray

January 2009

This is the MRI of the mom. As you can see, mom was not doing well. The top red arrows show a lot of cysts in the liver, there were a lot of cysts also in the kidney. The right and left kidney were enlarged; the right measuring 22cm, the left measuring 24cm.

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