A case of galactosemia misdiagnosed as cow’s milk intolerance

We report on a female patient affected by galactosemia in whom the diagnosis was obscured by the concomitant presence of manifestations suggesting a cow’s milk intolerance. This case exemplifies the problems in reaching a correct diagnosis in patients with metabolic diseases.

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Autores principales: Casa, Roberto Della, Ungaro, Carla, Acampora, Emma, Pignata, Claudio, Vajro, Pietro, Salerno, Mariacarolina, Santamaria, Francesca, Parenti, Giancarlo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22992216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-38-47
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author Casa, Roberto Della
Ungaro, Carla
Acampora, Emma
Pignata, Claudio
Vajro, Pietro
Salerno, Mariacarolina
Santamaria, Francesca
Parenti, Giancarlo
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spelling pubmed-34626872012-10-03 A case of galactosemia misdiagnosed as cow’s milk intolerance Casa, Roberto Della Ungaro, Carla Acampora, Emma Pignata, Claudio Vajro, Pietro Salerno, Mariacarolina Santamaria, Francesca Parenti, Giancarlo Ital J Pediatr Case Report We report on a female patient affected by galactosemia in whom the diagnosis was obscured by the concomitant presence of manifestations suggesting a cow’s milk intolerance. This case exemplifies the problems in reaching a correct diagnosis in patients with metabolic diseases. BioMed Central 2012-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3462687/ /pubmed/22992216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-38-47 Text en Copyright ©2012 Della Casa et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Casa, Roberto Della
Ungaro, Carla
Acampora, Emma
Pignata, Claudio
Vajro, Pietro
Salerno, Mariacarolina
Santamaria, Francesca
Parenti, Giancarlo
A case of galactosemia misdiagnosed as cow’s milk intolerance
title A case of galactosemia misdiagnosed as cow’s milk intolerance
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title_fullStr A case of galactosemia misdiagnosed as cow’s milk intolerance
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title_short A case of galactosemia misdiagnosed as cow’s milk intolerance
title_sort case of galactosemia misdiagnosed as cow’s milk intolerance
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22992216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-38-47
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