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A comprehensive review on the co-occurrence of scurvy and anorexia nervosa [PDF]
Frontiers in NutritionScurvy, a rare disease resulting from vitamin C deficiency, can occur in individuals with restrictive eating disorders like anorexia nervosa (AN), leading to severe health complications. This review explores the complex relationship between scurvy and AN,
Sunny Cui
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Scurvy in children: Down but not out
Indian Journal of Paediatric Dermatology, 2021 Background: Scurvy, a common disease of the past, has become rare in the modern era. Because of lack of awareness regarding its clinical and radiological manifestations, diagnosis of scurvy is often missed or delayed resulting in unnecessary and ...
Sukhjot Kaur, Jatinder Singh Goraya
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Case Report: Uncommon cause of limp in the 21st century
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Scurvy results from a deficiency of ascorbic acid. This disease first appeared in children during the 19th century with the emergence of new dietary habits; in particular, heating milk that leads to a loss of ascorbic acid.
Stephanie Thiemann +3 more
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Oral Manifestations in Scurvy Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review and a Case Report
Applied Sciences, 2021 Scurvy is generated by lack of vitamin C; although it is considered a rare and past disease, scurvy continues to be detected in children with neurodevelopmental disorders and with selective diet habits.
Maria Francesca Gicchino +7 more
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Scurvy in a young man: a rare case report
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 Scurvy, resulting from vitamin C deficiency, has nonspecific constitutional symptoms, including weakness, malaise, and fatigue. It is frequently misdiagnosed due to the lack of specific clinical manifestations. Although there are sporadic cases of scurvy
Rui-Ling Lu +5 more
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Vitamin C Deficiency as a Mimicker of Vasculitis: A Case
Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, 2023 Scurvy causes poor wound healing, hemarthrosis, petechiae, perifollicular hemorrhages, and nonspecific myalgia. Although studies report that scurvy can mimic vasculitis on physical examination, the disease lacks the laboratory evidence for vasculitis. We
Peter G. Brodeur +5 more
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Bilateral proptosis: an unusual primary presentation of scurvy—a case report
The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2021 Background Scurvy is a nutritional vitamin C deficiency disease which shows classical signs on radiographs most commonly along long bones with subperiosteal hemorrhage being a classical finding.
Damini S. +3 more
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Scurvy as the tip of the iceberg
Journal of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, 2014 Scurvy is thought to be a disease of the past that has long been forgotten. Historically, James Lind, a Scottish physician, wconducted the first ever clinical trial in an attempt to find a cure for scurvy in sailors in 1746, and found out that citrus ...
Sarah Hasan Al-Breiki +1 more
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Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2016 Scurvy is a disease that played an important role in ancient history and used to be a notorious cause of death in sailors. Nowadays, scurvy is not a common diagnosis in the civilized world, but this case report indicates that this old-fashioned disease is not extinct at all and still exists but in a different patient category.
Wijkmans, Rian A.A., Talsma, Koen
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SCURVY — A FORGOTTEN DISEASE UNDER THE GUISE OF HEMORRHAGIC VASCULITIS
Архивъ внутренней медицины, 2017 Background. Scurvy is very rarely seen in modern conditions. Material and Methods. We observed a case of scurvy that occurred as a result of prolonged malnutrition in a previously healthy 50-year-old man with low income. Results.
N. S. Chipigina +8 more
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