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Clinical characteristics of sitosterolemic children with xanthomas as the first manifestation

2022-06-08

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<h4>Background: </h4> Sitosterolemia (STSL) is an extremely rare genetic disease. Xanthomas as the first symptom are frequently misinterpreted as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) in children. Inappropriate treatment may deteriorate the condition of STSL. <h4>Objectives:</h4> The goal of this study was to summarize the clinical characteristics of children with STSL who had xanthomas as their first symptom and to...

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Literature Corpus work: 4484b7cb-e56e-5348-ad33-7af257c463a1
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1724401/v1

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