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Paediatric Imaging

Kwashiorkor

a severe nutritional disease with failure to thrive, apathy, diarrhoea and weakness. Radiologically, there is intestinal dysmotility with delayed onward passage of barium and cerebral atrophy. Osteoporosis and delayed bone age are secondary to the severe nutritional abnormality.

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