Cronkhite–Canada syndrome: report of a rare case and review of the literature

Cronkhite–Canada syndrome is rarely encountered in clinical practice. Notably, most patients with Cronkhite–Canada syndrome exhibit hypoalbuminemia. Because the cause of Cronkhite–Canada syndrome is unknown, no specific treatment method has been established. Here, we describe a 59-year-old woman wit...

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Autores principales: Liu, Yuping, Zhang, Li, Yang, Yingshan, Peng, Tao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32459145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520922427
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description Cronkhite–Canada syndrome is rarely encountered in clinical practice. Notably, most patients with Cronkhite–Canada syndrome exhibit hypoalbuminemia. Because the cause of Cronkhite–Canada syndrome is unknown, no specific treatment method has been established. Here, we describe a 59-year-old woman with Cronkhite–Canada syndrome in whom clinical manifestations were considerably relieved after treatment with prednisone.
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spelling pubmed-72737822020-06-15 Cronkhite–Canada syndrome: report of a rare case and review of the literature Liu, Yuping Zhang, Li Yang, Yingshan Peng, Tao J Int Med Res Case Report Cronkhite–Canada syndrome is rarely encountered in clinical practice. Notably, most patients with Cronkhite–Canada syndrome exhibit hypoalbuminemia. Because the cause of Cronkhite–Canada syndrome is unknown, no specific treatment method has been established. Here, we describe a 59-year-old woman with Cronkhite–Canada syndrome in whom clinical manifestations were considerably relieved after treatment with prednisone. SAGE Publications 2020-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7273782/ /pubmed/32459145 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520922427 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Cronkhite–Canada syndrome: report of a rare case and review of the literature
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title_fullStr Cronkhite–Canada syndrome: report of a rare case and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273782/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520922427
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