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Spooning of the nails and webbing of the esophagus: koilonychia and Plummer–Vinson Syndrome

Chronic iron deficiency can be associated with nail deformities like Koilonychia and Platynychia. It can also be associated with esophageal webs (Plummer‐Vinson syndrome or Patterson‐Brown‐Kelly syndrome) causing dysphagia in the patient. Though the pathogenesis of this association remains anecdotal...

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Autores principales: Mangla, Ankit, Agarwal, Nikki, Yu, Jie, Telfer, Margaret
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4693708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26734146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.419