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Fanconi-Bickel syndrome in a 3-year-old Indian boy with a novel mutation in the GLUT2 gene.
Clinical and experimental nephrology - 1 Oct 2011
Gopalakrishnan Arun, Kumar Manish, Krishnamurthy Sriram, Sakamoto Osamu, Srinivasan Sadagopan
Abstract excerpt
Fanconi-Bickel syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by hepatorenal glycogen accumulation, proximal renal tubular dysfunction and impaired utilization of glucose and galactose. Most cases have been reported from Europe, Japan, Turkey and the Mediterranean belt. We report a 3-year-old boy from southern India who presented with doll-like facies, florid rickets, massive hepatomegaly, growth...
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