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QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 2022 Dear Editor, Scurvy is a nutritional disorder which can develop after prolonged (>1-3 months) severe vitamin C deficiency. Vitamin C is a cofactor in several enzyme reactions involved in collagen synthesis. The defect in collagen causes blood vessel fragility, poor wound healing, mucocutaneous bleedings, hair abnormalities, bone pains, and joint ...
K Ishizuka, Y Ohira
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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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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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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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Scurvy: A New Old Cause of Skeletal Pain in Young Children
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020 We report 3 cases of scurvy in children that occurred during a short period (2018) in a general pediatrics unit of a tertiary hospital for children in Paris.
Christel Chalouhi +9 more
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Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of ...
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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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Temporary brittle bone disease:association with intracranial bleeding [PDF]
, 2013 We report 20 infants aged between 1 month and 6 months found to have subdural bleeding and also multiple unexplained fractures in a pattern similar to that described earlier as temporary brittle bone disease. Child abuse seemed unlikely as a cause of the
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