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FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON PATHOLOGIC SIMILARITIES BETWEEN EXPERIMENTAL SCURVY COMBINED WITH INFECTION, AND RHEUMATIC FEVER.

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In the guinea pig, chronic scurvy with superimposed infection (beta streptococcus) and to a lesser extent chronic scurvy alone, produces an arthropathy with striking pathologic similarities to that of rheumatic fever and the closely allied condition of rheumatoid arthritis. Considerable significance

The Heart Valves and Muscle in Experimental Scurvy with Superimposed Infection: With Notes on the Similarity of the Lesions to Those of Rheumatic Fever.

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Rheumatic Fever and Vitamin C Deficiency.

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Aleixo de Abreu [1568-1630], author of the earliest book on tropical medicine describing amoebiasis, malaria, typhoid fever, scurvy, yellow fever, dracontiasis, trichuriasis and tungiasis in 1623.

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Medicine: Malaria in the Mauritius-The Mosquito and Malaria-The Administration of Quinine, How and When-Anchylostomiasis in St. Lucia-An Effervescing Quinine Mixture-Scurvy and Uric Acid-Experimental Typhoid Fever-Alcohol and Immunity.

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Traumatic Injury in a Child with Scurvy: A Case Report.

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This case report aimed to describe the clinical presentation, treatments and prognosis of a child who had scurvy and traumatic injury of the left thigh. A 30-month-old boy had presented with left hip pain two weeks after falling down on the floor while walking. He developed pain, warmness of the

Scurvy in pediatric patients: a review of 28 cases.

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OBJECTIVE To study the dietary factors, clinical findings, plasma vitamin C level and post-treatment outcome of scurvy in pediatric patients at Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health. METHODS A retrospective study. METHODS The medical and radiographic records of pediatric patients,

Robert Robertson, FRS (1742-1829): physician to the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, 18th-century authority on 'fever', and early practitioner in care of the elderly.

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Robert Robertson was born in Scotland and trained to be a surgeon. In 1760, he served briefly on a whaling ship and then entered the Royal Navy. He subsequently had many postings, several of them to the tropics. He recorded his observations on fevers, scurvy and other illnesses. After 23 years of

Scurvy--a forgotten disease.

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A four-year-old male child was reported with sudden inability to stand walk of 10 days duration. Acute paralytic poliomyelitis was diagnosed in the presence of fever, respiratory infection, muscle tenderness, and weakness in lower extremity in an unimmunized child. Reevaluation after a week showed

[Infantile scurvy].

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Infantile scurvy, today a rare disease, can be diagnosed either by recognition of a characteristic constellation of clinical features, or on the correct interpretation of nearly pathognomonic radiological signs. Dystrophy, recurrent infections, fever, anemia, hemorrhagic effusions, hematuria,

Outbreak of scurvy in Tana River County, Kenya: A case report.

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Over a five-month period, clinicians in Tana River County Kenya observed an increasing number of patients presenting to health facilities with a common collection of symptoms including fevers, joint pains and gum hypertrophy. After initial investigative and management strategies failed to reveal a

[Multiple epiphyseal separations in a child with cerebral palsy and scurvy].

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Scurvy is a dietary disease due to Vitamin C deficiency. Vitamin C is related to collagen synthesis and metabolism. Malnutrition, problems in bowel absorption, alcoholism and cerebral palsy are clearly often linked with scurvy, even it is no more common in the industrialized countries. Its clinical

Scurvy in a 10-month-old boy.

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We report a 10-month-old boy with inflammatory and necrotic gingival lesions, fever, irritability, and pseudoparalysis of the legs. Laboratory examinations revealed moderate anemia and skeletal X-rays showed osteopenia, scorbutic rosary at the costochondral junctions, and "corner sign" on the

Do you remember scurvy?

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Scurvy, a disease caused by a deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), is not very common disease especially in pediatric age. In the late nineteenth century, instead, we assisted to increase incidence of this problem for the use of heated milk and convenience foods. We report two cases of scurvy: a

Vitamin C Deficiency Presenting as an Acute Limp in Childhood

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A previously well three-year-old boy attended with right knee pain and an antalgic gait. There was no history of fever and bloods including inflammatory markers were normal. A diagnosis of transient synovitis (irritable hip) was made and managed conservatively. One month later, he represented with

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