Conclusions
In contrast to the polysymptomatic diseases the significance of their antithetic case, namely the scanty symptomatology in anomalies and pathologies, has been stressed.
By a few case reports the inverted ratio between cause and effect, i.e. disease and its symptoms, has been illustrated.
The role of neurosis, developing on the same constitutional basis of the congenital anomalies, has been emphasized.
Cases were cited in which in the presence of congenital anomalies and acquired pathologies, symptoms, if present, were referable to an associated neurosis.
Effort has been made to define or identify some of the known or suggested causes in cases with olygosymptomatology and to correlate such symptomatology to causative factors.
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Galambos, A., Galambos, W.M. Olygosymptomatic anomalies and pathologies. The role of genetic factors. Amer. Jour. Dig. Dis. 21, 215–225 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02881369
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