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Article: Disabling osteomalacia and myopathy as the only presenting features of celiac disease: a case report.(Case Report)(Case study)
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- Cases Journal
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- January 7, 2009
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Authors: Costantine Albany (corresponding author) [1]; Zhanna Servetnyk [1]
Background
Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic digestive disease in which patients have inflammation in the small intestine. Inflammation in the bowel occurs when a patient with CD begins to eat food that contains gluten. Approximately 1 out of every 250 people may have CD though only 1 out of 10 people with celiac disease actually may be diagnosed and are aware of their disease. Some of these patients have mild forms of CD and may be asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms. Classically, the disease manifests with diarrhea, weight loss and anemia. There are very few reports of ...
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