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Beriberi disease in an 11-year-old girl with total colectomy

Beriberi or vitamin B1 deficiency is a rare disease in the developed world and more common in developing countries due to poverty and malnutrition. It usually presents with neurological manifestations (dry beriberi) or cardiovascular signs (wet beriberi). We report a case of dry beriberi in an 11-ye...

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Autores principales: Salloum, Shafee, Goenka, Ajay, Mezoff, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6208053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30397502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omy091