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Vitamin A deficiency phrynoderma: due to malabsorption and inadequate diet
N R Bleasel1, K M Stapleton, M S Lee
1Department of Dermatology, Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, New South Wales, Australia.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|July 30, 1999
Abstract:
We describe a patient with vitamin A deficiency phrynoderma caused by a combination of inadequate dietary intake of vitamin A and beta-carotene and malabsorption secondary to primary visceral myopathy and total colectomy.