• DOI:10.1542/PEDS.105.1.89
Corpus ID: 35922780

The Discovery of Phenylketonuria: The Story of a Young Couple, Two Retarded Children, and a Scientist

@article{Centerwall2000TheDO,
  title={The Discovery of Phenylketonuria: The Story of a Young Couple, Two Retarded Children, and a Scientist},
  author={S. A. Centerwall and W. R. Centerwall},
  journal={Pediatrics},
  year={2000},
  volume={105},
  pages={103 - 89}
}

S. A. Centerwall, W. R. Centerwall

Published 2000

Medicine

Pediatrics

In the 1920s, a little girl 3 years of age was brought from China to the United States by her American mother. [...] Key Method In the United States, she also went from doctors to psychologists to clinics looking for someone who could help. Finally, she went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. When she had answered all of the doctor's questions, and all the tests were finished, they still could not tell her what was wrong. There was nothing they could do. The disease from which the little girl suffered…Expand Abstract

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