Hypocalcaemic chorea secondary to malabsorption

1 August 1979

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)

Vol. 55 (646) , 560-563
https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.55.646.560

Abstract

Summary: A patient presented with chorea and a recent history of Crohn's disease. Investigation revealed the cause of the chorea to be hypocalcaemia secondary to malabsorption. So far as is known there has been no previous report of hypocalcaemic chorea due to malabsorption.

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