Delayed Diagnoses: Nonspecific Findings and Diagnostic Challenges in Eating Disorders
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Delayed Diagnoses: Nonspecific Findings and Diagnostic Challenges in Eating Disorders
Objective. Eating disorders commonly present with nonspecific findings, masquerading as other, more common etiologies of malnutrition and wasting. In low-prevalence populations, these ambiguities can complicate clinicians' diagnostic reasoning, resulting in delayed or missed diagnoses. Method. We report the atypical case of a 51-year-old male with a five-year history of unexplained weight loss ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1687-9627,1687-9635
DOI: 10.1155/2009/841037