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Query: UMLS:C0240066 (
iron deficiency
)
7,156
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
An 11-year-old boy with
eosinophilic gastroenteritis
treated by an elimination diet alone presented with a perforated gastroduodenal ulcer subsequent to blunt trauma to the abdomen. Peripheral eosinophilia, chronic
iron deficiency
, chronic hypoalbuminemia and severe failure to thrive had been present since age 2 years. Immunological work-up revealed food allergies, documented by skin tests. A review of the literature since 1966 revealed only six other cases of perforation of the gastrointestinal tract, one of whom was also a child.
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PMID:Perforated duodenal ulcer in a pediatric patient with eosinophilic gastroenteritis. 916 27
