title: Vanishing syndromes.
abstract: Certain syndromes develop because of regression or shrinkage of essential pathways. This account draws attention to six conditions in which different mechanisms and pathways give rise to a scorched-earth policy and to strange clinical syndromes.
authors.affiliation: Royal Free Hospital, London.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: James
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000503:physiopathology; D005088:Exocrine Glands / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006059:Gonadal Dysgenesis / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000503:physiopathology; D016911:Koro / Q000503:physiopathology; D008168:Lung / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome; D013577:Syndrome; D013737:Testis / Q000002:abnormalities