Diffuse soft tissue emphysema as a complication of anorexia nervosa.

Hatzitolios, A I; Sion, M L; Kounanis, A D; Toulis, E N; Dimitriadis, A; Ioannidis, I; Ziakas, G N · Postgrad Med J · 1997

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We describe a case of a young woman with anorexia nervosa with a 35% weight loss, amenorrhea and behavioural disturbances complicated by spontaneous diffuse soft tissue emphysema (subcutaneous, pneumomediastinum, epidural and retroperitoneal).

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