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Med Cutan Iber Lat Am 2010; 38 (2)

Scurvy still exists in modern medicine

Agriello MF, Buonsante ME, Franco C, Abeldaño A, Neglia V, Zylberman M, Pellerano G

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 76-80
PDF size: 218.63 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Scurvy is a nutritional disorder due to vitamin C deficiency.
We communicate the case of a 37-year-old patient who came to us with lumbar pain and lower limbs disability, asuell as, mucosa and cutaneous hemorrhages.
We remark that dietary history leads to a rapid diagnosis when characteristic cutaneous lesions are present.


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