Vitamin C deficiency

Un bambino che zoppica: quando meno te lo aspetti

Cunsolo M, Gazzitano L, Alizzi C, Panzuto F, Corsello G.

2025/9 — pag. 598-600 — DOI

A 19-month-old boy arrived at the emergency room with inconsolable crying and refusal to walk. MRI revealed bone changes consistent with vitamin C deficiency (scurvy). His history showed a diet almost exclusively based on milk and gingival bleeding. ...

Un paziente scorbu… tico con dolore, edema e petecchie agli arti inferiori…

Basilio P.

2024/2 — pag. 120 — DOI

The diagnosis of vitamin C deficiency was eventually made in an autistic child complaining about leg pain. ...

Lo scorbuto, segnale di allarme di un disturbo dello spettro autistico

Liuzzo Scorpo M, Corsello G, Maggio MC.

2022/8 — pag. 524-526 — DOI

The authors describe the case of a 3-year-old girl with bleeding gums and leg pain finally diagnosed with vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). The increased risk of developing scurvy due to a restricted diet in children...

Disturbo della condotta alimentare, ecchimosi e carenza di vitamina C

Attico A, Iacono A, Biserna L, Brandolini S, Marchetti F

2021/9 — pag. 273-276 — DOI

The paper presents the case of a 16-year-old girl with a 6-month history of eating disorder, restrictive subtype and diffuse ecchymosis. Anamnestic history and laboratory investigations allowed excluding coagulation disorders and making the diagnosis...

Dolori osteoarticolari persistenti: forse manca qualcosa?

A. Arduini, V. Di Ruscio

2019/9 — pag. 231-232

Scorbuto 2017 attraverso i casi

E. Conversano, R. Bergamaschi, G. Ingrasciotta, A. Martoni, S. Monti, M. Cattalini

2017/6 — pag. 365-370

Scurvy is an uncommon presentation of vitamin deficiency that in our century is becoming more and more common, especially in patients with cognitive disorder. Being an uncommon disease, diagnosis is often delayed and can lead to unnecessary complex...

C’è ancora!

M. Porrello, D. Corso

1998/5 — pag. 326