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A CLINICAL STUDY OF SEVENTEEN CASES

F. C. RODDA, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1925;30(2):224-231.

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REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

A certain train of symptoms affecting infants and young children has recently been designated as "acrodynia." In 1919, Bilderback¹ reported ten cases of this condition in children presenting peculiar nutritional, neurologic and dermatologic disturbances. These case reports were sent to Dr. John Morse who, recognizing findings suggestive of pellagra, in turn referred them to Dr. Weston of Columbia. After careful study, Weston² decided that the condition was not pellagra and applied the name acrodynia to the disease. In 1920, Byfield³ reported a series of seventeen cases presenting similar symptoms. Being impressed with the neurologic findings, he entitled his report "A Polyneuritic Syndrome Resembling Pellagra-Acrodynia?' His report was so complete that but little has been added by numerous later reports. In 1921, Brown⁴ reported eight typical cases. After careful clinical and metabolic studies, he concluded that acrodynia was not a deficiency disease, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MINNEAPOLIS

Footnotes
Received for publication, May 9, 1925.

Read before the American Pediatric Society, Washington, D. C., May, 1925.

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