Pellagra: a rare complication of anorexia nervosa

@article{GabrielaJagielskaMD2007PellagraAR,
  title={Pellagra: a rare complication of anorexia nervosa},
  author={PhD Gabriela  Jagielska  MD and PhD Celina Elżbieta  Tomaszewicz-Libudzic  MD and PhD Agata  Brzozowska  MD},
  journal={European Child \& Adolescent Psychiatry},
  year={2007},
  volume={16},
  pages={417-420}
}
Pellagra is a potentially fatal, nutritional disease with cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and neuropsychiatric manifestations. Because of the diversity of pellagra’s signs and symptoms, diagnosis is difficult without an appropriate index of suspicion. A case of pellagra in a 14-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is presented. Signs and symptoms of pellagra were resolved after niacin therapy and dietary treatment. 
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