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1Institut für Hausarztmedizin und Versorgungsforschung, Universitätsspital Zürich.
Abstract:
We describe the case of a 23-year old man, who is himself a student of human medicine and who performed, thanks to his knowledge gained during his studies, a presumptive diagnosis of the Ehlers-Danlos-syndrome on himself. This fact was previously underdiagnosed by several physicians, who were consulted due to the manifestation of symptoms.
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