Abstract
Two patients with phenylketonuria and scleroderma-like skin lesions are presented. Since scleroderma is a rare collagen disease of childhood, the occurrence of these two disorders in the same patient does not seem to be coincidental but raises the possibility of a causal relationship. Improvement in the skin lesions of the patients after the commencement of a low-phenylalanine diet supports this hypothesis.
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Abbreviations
- PKU:
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phenylketonuria
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Coşkun, T., Özalp, İ., Kale, G. et al. Scleroderma-like skin lesions in two patients with phenylketonuria. Eur J Pediatr 150, 109–110 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02072050
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