Clinical Vignette 2

Image 2:

Child with failure to thrive, hypertrophied gums and funny looking costo-chondral junctions. Seen in Malaysia in 1969.

Diagnosis:

Scurvy and a scorbutic rosary. A full description of this case is found in, MacLean JD, Kamath KR: Infantile Scurvy in Malaysia. Med Journal Malaysia 24;200, 1970.

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