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Geophagia in a chronic hemodialysis patient
1Department of Internal Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston.
The West Virginia Medical Journal
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
Geophagia, the deliberate ingestion of earth, is a serious clinical problem, particularly for dialysis patients. This article presents a geophagic patient with end stage renal disease and reviews the etiology, consequences and treatment of this disorder.