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Pediatric Scurvy: When Contemporary Eating Habits Bring Back the Past
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018 Vitamin C deficiency is anecdotal in developed countries, mainly associated with underling clinical morbidities as autism or neurological impairment. Chronic insufficient dietary supply is responsible for vascular fragility and impaired bone formation ...
Alice Brambilla +6 more
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Modern-day limeys: Clinical, laboratory, and radiological profile of 10 paediatric scurvy patients
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary CareScurvy is often considered a disease of the past and well described in children with neurodevelopment and autistic spectrum disease. Clinicians overlook the diagnosis of scurvy, leading to unwarranted laboratory investigations and, unfortunately ...
Malvika Krishna +3 more
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Palpable Purpura with an Unexpected Outcome
Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2013 Scurvy is a potentially lethal condition caused by inadequate vitamin C intake. Hypovitaminosis of vitamin C causes vessel fragility and follicular hyperkeratosis that can lead to palpable purpuric skin lesions.
Anne Friesgaard Christensen +2 more
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BMC Nutrition, 2023 Background There have been reports of isolated trace elements or vitamin deficiencies due to imbalanced diets, but no cases of selenium deficiency combined with scurvy have been reported.
Makoto Okada +5 more
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The London medical and physical journalA THIRD EDITION of my “Observations on Scurvy” has, for some time, been called for;but it was thought advisable to delay it till the conclusion of hostilities, when the wholeexperience obtained during the last twenty years of war might be brought into one view.
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Scurvy-Characteristic Features and Forensic Issues
, 2021 Scurvy is a multisystem condition that arises from vitamin C deficiency. As humans cannot synthesize vitamin C, serum and tissue levels depend on bioavailability, utilization, and renal excretion.
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, Byard, Roger W
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Scurvy mimicking juvenile idiopathic arthritis in two pediatric patients
Indian Journal of Rheumatology, 2018 Scurvy, though previously reported from developing countries, is now being increasingly reported from developed countries. Although rare in pediatric population, it is well known to cause lower-extremity pain and refusal to walk in children.
B Harikrishnan, Suma Balan
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Scurvy as a Cause of Leg Pain and Limp in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North AmericaVitamin C deficiency (VCD) results in collagen dysfunction due to decreased lysyl and prolyl hydroxylase enzyme activity. The resulting disease, known as scurvy, can present with various findings, including gingival bleeding, bruising, other skin lesions,
Christopher J. DeFrancesco, MD +4 more
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