A rare cause of protein-losing enteropathy and growth retardation in infancy: Infantile systemic hyalinosis

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 258-260

  Büyükgebiz, Benal ^a   Öztürk, Yesim ^a   Arslan, Nur ^a   Özer, Erdener ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Growth retardation; Infantile systemic hyalinosis; Protein losing enteropathy; Thickness of skin

Indexed keywords

HYALIN; PROTEIN;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CASE REPORT; CHILDBIRTH; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; INFANT; INTESTINE EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EDEMA;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALIN; INFANT; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0242607884     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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