DIFFUSE SOFT-TISSUE EMPHYSEMA AS A COMPLICATION OF ANOREXIA-NERVOSA

Authors
HATZITOLIOS AI SION ML KOUNANIS AD TOULIS EN DIMITRIADIS A IOANNIDIS I ZIAKAS GN
Citation
Ai. Hatzitolios et al., DIFFUSE SOFT-TISSUE EMPHYSEMA AS A COMPLICATION OF ANOREXIA-NERVOSA, Postgraduate medical journal, 73(864), 1997, pp. 662-664
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Postgraduate medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00325473
Volume
73
Issue
864
Year of publication
1997
Pages
662 - 664
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(1997)73:864<662:DSEAAC>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We describe a case of a young woman with anorexia nervosa with a 35% w eight loss, amenorrhea and behavioural disturbances complicated by spo ntaneous diffuse soft tissue emphysema (subcutaneous, pneumomediastinu m, epidural and retroperitoneal).