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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Autores principales: Wijkmans, Rian A.A., Talsma, Koen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Case Reports
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
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description 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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spelling pubmed-47073872016-01-12 Modern scurvy Wijkmans, Rian A.A. Talsma, Koen J Surg Case Rep Case Reports 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. Oxford University Press 2016-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4707387/ /pubmed/26755528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjv168 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2016. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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