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Anorexia nervosa - The paucity of radiologic findings in more than fifty patients

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Anorexia nervosa is a self-imposed progressive starvation based on a psychiatric disorder. More than fifty patients (mainly adolescent girls) have had extensive radiologic evaluation. The radiographic findings are an absence of subcutaneous fat, with reduced muscle mass; the gastrointestinal findings are limited to moderate non-obstructive dilatation of small bowel loops with minimal effect on transit. These findings reflect the cachexia and in no way are diagnostic of anorexia nervosa per se.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Radiology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Babies Hospital, The Children's Medical and Surgical Center, 622 West 168 Street, 10032, New York, N. Y., USA

    J. O. Haller (Fellow in Pediatric Radiology, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Maternal Child Health Bureau, Project Number 153), T. L. Slovis (Fellow in Pediatric Radiology, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Maternal Child Health Bureau, Project Number 153), D. H. Baker (Director Pediatric Radiology) & W. E. Berdon

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Babies Hospital, The Children's Medical and Surgical Center, 622 West 168 Street, 10032, New York, N. Y., USA

    J. A. Silverman

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Haller, J.O., Slovis, T.L., Baker, D.H. et al. Anorexia nervosa - The paucity of radiologic findings in more than fifty patients. Pediatr Radiol 5, 145–147 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00973980

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