Pellagra: a rare complication of anorexia nervosa.

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

Department of Child Psychiatry, Medical University of Warszaw, Warszawa, Poland.

Published: October 2007

Pellagra is a potentially fatal, nutritional disease with cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and neuropsychiatric manifestations. Because of the diversity of pellagra's signs and symptoms, diagnosis is difficult without an appropriate index of suspicion. A case of pellagra in a 14-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is presented. Signs and symptoms of pellagra were resolved after niacin therapy and dietary treatment.

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