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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type IV with Bilateral Pneumothorax.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2015
Nakagawa Hiroaki, Wada Hiroshi, Hajiro Takashi, Nagao Taishi, Ogawa Emiko, Hatamochi Atsushi, Tanaka Toshihiro, Nakano Yasutaka
Abstract excerpt
A 17-year-old teen was hospitalized with bilateral pneumothorax. After the bilateral lungs were expanded using catheter tubes, he fully recovered and he was discharged from our hospital. He had a history of colon perforation. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) was suspected due to the combination of colon perforation and pneumothorax, and EDS type IV was confirmed after a genetic study identified a c.1511g>a mutation...
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