Literature DB >> 8358995

A case of scurvy presenting with cutaneous and articular signs.

C Gabay1, A E Voskuyl, G Cadiot, M Mignon, M F Kahn.   

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This report is on a patient, who presented purpura and hemarthrosis in a context of vitamin C deficiency. This case gives us the opportunity to discuss the differential diagnosis, the clinical features, the pathogenicity and the treatment of this rare condition.

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Year:  1993        PMID： 8358995     DOI： 10.1007/bf02231544

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Clin Rheumatol        ISSN： 0770-3198            Impact factor:   2.980


  10 in total

1.  Scurvy and hemarthrosis.

Authors:  F A Bevelaqua; P Hasselbacher; H R Schumacher
Journal:  JAMA       Date:  1976-04-26       Impact factor: 56.272

2.  Follicular purpuric macules of the extremities. Scurvy.

Authors:  P B Wirth; R E Kalb
Journal:  Arch Dermatol       Date:  1990-03

3.  Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 33-1986. A 62-year-old alcoholic man with confusion, ataxia, and a rash.

Authors: 
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  1986-08-21       Impact factor: 91.245

4.  Hemarthrosis and femoral head destruction in an adult diet faddist with scurvy.

Authors:  A K Shetty; R B Buckingham; P J Killian; D Girdany; R Meyerowitz
Journal:  J Rheumatol       Date:  1988-12       Impact factor: 4.666

5.  Femoral neuropathy in scurvy.

Authors:  J Hood
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  1969-12-04       Impact factor: 91.245

Review 6.  New concepts in the biology and biochemistry of ascorbic acid.

Authors:  M Levine
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  1986-04-03       Impact factor: 91.245

7.  Adult scurvy.

Authors:  J B Reuler; V C Broudy; T G Cooney
Journal:  JAMA       Date:  1985-02-08       Impact factor: 56.272

8.  The effect of siderosis and ascorbic acid depletion on bone metabolism, with special reference to osteoporosis in the Bantu.

Authors:  A A Wapnick; S R Lynch; H C Seftel; R W Charlton; T H Bothwell; J Jowsey
Journal:  Br J Nutr       Date:  1971-05       Impact factor: 3.718

9.  Vitamin C depletion and pressure sores in elderly patients with femoral neck fracture.

Authors:  H F Goode; E Burns; B E Walker
Journal:  BMJ       Date:  1992-10-17

10.  Specifically decreased collagen biosynthesis in scurvy dissociated from an effect on proline hydroxylation and correlated with body weight loss. In vitro studies in guinea pig calvarial bones.

Authors:  M Chojkier; R Spanheimer; B Peterkofsky
Journal:  J Clin Invest       Date:  1983-09       Impact factor: 14.808
  10 in total
  2 in total

1.  Vitamin C deficiency and depletion in the United States: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988 to 1994.

Authors:  Jeffrey S Hampl; Christopher A Taylor; Carol S Johnston
Journal:  Am J Public Health       Date:  2004-05       Impact factor: 9.308

2.  Scurvy extinct? Think again!

Authors:  Vela D Desai; Shweta Hegde; Durgesh N Bailoor; Neelkant Patil
Journal:  Int J Clin Pediatr Dent       Date:  2009-12-26
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