title: Nutritional disorders in a concentration camp.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Observations on nutritional disorders were made by a physician inmate in a concentration camp before and during the Great Starvation in China.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Based on therapeutic response, many unique abnormalities should be considered as a part of clinical picture of malnutrition, such as mucocutaneous pigmentation, nail layering phenomena and intranail hemorrhage, palmar/plantar fissures, vegetative system crisis, a avitaminostic fevers, multiple premature beats, and enlargement of cartilage, lymph nodes, and submandibular glands.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Thiamin deficiency should be also considered as one, if not the only, etiologic factor of several common disorders, including submandibular gland cyst, Baker's cyst, stenosing tenosynovitis, direct inguinal hernia, among others.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
authors.forename: B Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: T F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Thurmon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001834:Body Water / Q000378:metabolism; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D002681:China; D003209:Concentration Camps; D015444:Exercise; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D009260:Nail Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D009748:Nutrition Disorders; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D013217:Starvation; D013831:Thiamine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013832:Thiamine Deficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D013831:Thiamine