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. 2024 Dec 1;196(41):E1377-E1379.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.240769-f.

Scorbut chez une femme de 65 ans dont la capacité fonctionnelle et le réseau social sont fort limités

[Article in French]
Kevin R Murray  1 , Diana Cagliero  1 , Thomas Kiebalo  1 , Sarah Engelhart  2
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Scorbut chez une femme de 65 ans dont la capacité fonctionnelle et le réseau social sont fort limités

[Article in French]
Kevin R Murray et al. CMAJ. .
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Femme de 65 ans atteinte de scorbut (hypovitaminose C); on observe des ecchymoses et une hypertrophie gingivales, (A, B) sans mobilité dentaire ni édentation, (C) d’importantes ecchymoses à la face médiale des cuisses et (D) des pétéchies périfolliculaires aux jambes.
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