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RENAL DISEASE AND GOITRE: A NEW SYNDROME OF PRIMARY AMYLOIDOSIS
Author(s) -
COOKE R. A.,
CHAMPNESS L. T.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1972.tb01833.x
Subject(s) - medicine , amyloidosis , disease , new guinea , pediatrics , pathology , history , ethnology
SYNOPSIS 8 children suffering from renal disease and goitre, both due to primary amyloidosis, are reported as a readily recognisable syndrome in Papua‐New Guinea and are presented as a syndrome which does not appear to have been previously recognised anywhere else in the world.