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Severe scurvy: an underestimated disease
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Severe scurvy: an underestimated disease

Abstract

Scurvy is one of the oldest diseases in human history. Nowadays, although scurvy tends to become a forgotten disease in developed country, rare cases still occur, especially in people undergoing extreme diet, old people or children with poor diet and patients with malabsorption. We describe three cases of scurvy. The first case is a patient diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, the second one is in a context of anorexia nervosa and drug addiction, …

Authors

Levavasseur M; Becquart C; Pape E; Pigeyre M; Rousseaux J; Staumont-Sallé D; Delaporte E

Journal

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 69, No. 9, pp. 1076–1077

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

September 2015

DOI

10.1038/ejcn.2015.99

ISSN

0954-3007