ALLGROVE'S SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
This report concerns two brothers aged 10 and 18 years with long-standing dysphagia that started at age three and six years respectively. They had been diagnosed as achalasia and treated accordingly. The appearance of additional symptoms and clinical signs required further investigations including a...
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pubmed-33770192012-09-24 ALLGROVE'S SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW Yasawy, Mohamed I. Case Report This report concerns two brothers aged 10 and 18 years with long-standing dysphagia that started at age three and six years respectively. They had been diagnosed as achalasia and treated accordingly. The appearance of additional symptoms and clinical signs required further investigations including abdominal sonography, esophago-gastroduodenoscopy, barium swallow, esophageal manometry, computerized tomography (CT) of abdomen and brain, biochemical profiles, and neurologic and ophthalmic evaluations. The results of these extensive investigations along with the clinical evaluations were consistent with Allgrove's syndrome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3377019/ /pubmed/23012188 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family and Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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ALLGROVE'S SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW |
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ALLGROVE'S SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW |
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ALLGROVE'S SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW |
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ALLGROVE'S SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW |
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ALLGROVE'S SYNDROME: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW |
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allgrove's syndrome: case report and literature review |
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This report concerns two brothers aged 10 and 18 years with long-standing dysphagia that started at age three and six years respectively. They had been diagnosed as achalasia and treated accordingly. The appearance of additional symptoms and clinical signs required further investigations including abdominal sonography, esophago-gastroduodenoscopy, barium swallow, esophageal manometry, computerized tomography (CT) of abdomen and brain, biochemical profiles, and neurologic and ophthalmic evaluations. The results of these extensive investigations along with the clinical evaluations were consistent with Allgrove's syndrome. |
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