Anorexia tardive: a diagnosis of exclusion?

Autor:	James R. Lawrence, Jennifer Berg, Janice D. Russell
Rok vydání:	1988
Předmět:	Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry General Medicine Anorexia medicine.disease Diagnosis of exclusion Nasogastric feeding Malnutrition Anorexia nervosa (differential diagnoses) Carcinoma medicine Psychogenic disease medicine.symptom Abnormality business
Zdroj:	Medical Journal of Australia. 148:199-201
ISSN:	1326-5377 0025-729X
DOI:	10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb112819.x
Popis:	An elderly female patient is described in whom rapid severe weight loss appeared initially to be of psychogenic origin and self-induced. A diagnosis of late-onset anorexia nervosa or anorexia tardive was made when early investigations revealed no abnormality apart from changes that were consistent with malnutrition, and when typical behavioural and psychological factors together with putative psychodynamic issues were revealed. At first, nasogastric feeding was beneficial, but a stormy hospital course ensued. Further investigations revealed the presence of neoplastic disease which at post-mortem examination proved to be small-cell carcinoma of the lung.
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