Acquired Zinc Deficiency in an Adult Female

Acrodermatitis enteropathica is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder of zinc absorption. Acquired cases are reported occasionally in patients with eating disorders or Crohn's disease. We report a 24-year-old housewife with acquired isolated severe zinc deficiency with no other comorbiditie...

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Autores principales: Saritha, Mohanan, Gupta, Divya, Chandrashekar, Laxmisha, Thappa, Devinder M, Rajesh, Nachiappa G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23248371
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.103073
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author Saritha, Mohanan
Gupta, Divya
Chandrashekar, Laxmisha
Thappa, Devinder M
Rajesh, Nachiappa G
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description Acrodermatitis enteropathica is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder of zinc absorption. Acquired cases are reported occasionally in patients with eating disorders or Crohn's disease. We report a 24-year-old housewife with acquired isolated severe zinc deficiency with no other comorbidities to highlight the rare occurrence of isolated nutritional zinc deficiency in an otherwise normal patient.
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spelling pubmed-35192602012-12-17 Acquired Zinc Deficiency in an Adult Female Saritha, Mohanan Gupta, Divya Chandrashekar, Laxmisha Thappa, Devinder M Rajesh, Nachiappa G Indian J Dermatol Case Report Acrodermatitis enteropathica is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder of zinc absorption. Acquired cases are reported occasionally in patients with eating disorders or Crohn's disease. We report a 24-year-old housewife with acquired isolated severe zinc deficiency with no other comorbidities to highlight the rare occurrence of isolated nutritional zinc deficiency in an otherwise normal patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3519260/ /pubmed/23248371 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.103073 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acquired Zinc Deficiency in an Adult Female
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519260/
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