Pellagra: A Non-Eradicated Old Disease

We report a case of a 50-year old homeless male who presented with pellagra and pellagrous encephalopathy. The characteristic - if not pathognomonic - skin lesions of pellagra support its diagnosis on solely clinical grounds. Clinicians should keep a high index of suspicion, in certain patient group...

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Autor principal: Savvidou, Savvoula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24847436
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2014.637
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description We report a case of a 50-year old homeless male who presented with pellagra and pellagrous encephalopathy. The characteristic - if not pathognomonic - skin lesions of pellagra support its diagnosis on solely clinical grounds. Clinicians should keep a high index of suspicion, in certain patient groups, in order to early diagnose and cure this potentially fatal but treatable disease.
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spelling pubmed-40199252014-05-20 Pellagra: A Non-Eradicated Old Disease Savvidou, Savvoula Clin Pract Case Report We report a case of a 50-year old homeless male who presented with pellagra and pellagrous encephalopathy. The characteristic - if not pathognomonic - skin lesions of pellagra support its diagnosis on solely clinical grounds. Clinicians should keep a high index of suspicion, in certain patient groups, in order to early diagnose and cure this potentially fatal but treatable disease. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4019925/ /pubmed/24847436 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2014.637 Text en ©Copyright S. Savvidou http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BYNC 3.0)
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title_short Pellagra: A Non-Eradicated Old Disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019925/
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