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Anorexia and Brain Tumour
Author(s) -
BRANDBERG OLOF
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1963.tb05514.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anorexia , sister , lesion , pediatrics , electroencephalography , epilepsy , brain damage , cachexia , surgery , psychiatry , pathology , cancer , sociology , anthropology
Summary Two sisters, who resembled each other, both fell ill, at the age of three years, from progressive anorexia, which, during a course of about two and three years respectively, proved fatal. The elder sister died in her home and had then suffered from epileptic seizures, indicating a brain lesion. This had previously been conjectured; most probably a brain tumour may be suspected. The younger sister died from severe prostration at the hospital. In her case there were EEG changes which could indicate tumour cerebri; this suspicion was confirmed post mortem.