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Addison's disease without pigmentation.
Introduction It has been said that pigmentation of the skin is the most distinctive feature of Addison's disease (British Medical Journal, 1963) and that no other clinical feature is as useful diagnostically (Dunlop, 1963). Four cases are presented where no pigmentation was found. The difficulties in diagnosis are discussed and it is suggested that Addison's disease without pigmentation is comm...
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Human skin pigmentation evolved as a compromise between the conflicting physiological demands of protection against the deleterious effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and photosynthesis of UVB-dependent vitamin D(3). Living under high UVR near the equator, ancestral Homo sapiens had skin rich in protective eumelanin. Dispersals outside of the tropics were associated with positive selection ...
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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome is a rare condition characterized by mucocutaneous pigmentation, polyposis and an increased cancer risk at a number of gastrointestinal and extra intestinal organs. We present a patient with a history of gastrointestinal bleeding with no mucocutaneous pigmentation. Upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed multiple polyps located in the deuodenum and colon. Hist...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.49.571.305