Pellagra: A rare disease observed in a victim of mental and physical abuse

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 342-344

  Piercecchi Marti, Marie Dominique ^a   Pélissier Alicot, Anne Laure ^a   Leonetti, Georges ^a   Tervé, Jean Paul ^a   Cianfarani, François ^a   Pellissier, Jean François ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Abuse; Chromatolysis; Neuropathology; Pellagra

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABSORPTION; ABUSE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; CACHEXIA; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; COLITIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LIMB; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PELLAGRA; PERITONITIS; TOXICOLOGY;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CACHEXIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; PELLAGRA;

EID: 10044272955     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.paf.0000136589.28903.e5     Document Type: Article

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