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Modern scurvy
Scurvy is a disease that played an important role in ancient history and used to be a notorious cause of death in sailors. Nowadays, scurvy is not a common diagnosis in the civilized world, but this case report indicates that this old-fashioned disease is not extinct at all and still exists but in a...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707387/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26755528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjv168 |
| Sumario: | Scurvy is a disease that played an important role in ancient history and used to be a notorious cause of death in sailors. Nowadays, scurvy is not a common diagnosis in the civilized world, but this case report indicates that this old-fashioned disease is not extinct at all and still exists but in a different patient category. |
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